Clay Stone Briggs
Briggs in 1921
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 7th district
In office March 4, 1919 – April 29, 1933
Preceded by	Alexander W. Gregg
Succeeded by	Clark W. Thompson
Personal details
Born	Clay Stone Bridges (1876-01-08)January 8, 1876 Galveston, Texas
Died	April 29, 1933(1933-04-29) (aged 57) Washington, D.C.
Resting place	Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York
Political party	Democratic

Clay Stone Briggs (January 8, 1876 – April 29, 1933) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 through his death in 1933.

Briggs was born in Galveston, Texas, on January 8, 1876. While a child, he went to both public and private schools. He attended University of Texas at Austin (where he was a member of the Nu Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity), Harvard, and graduated from Yale Law School.

Shortly after graduating college, he ran for the Texas House of Representatives and served there from 1907 to 1909. He was also a judge in the tenth district in Texas until 1919, when he became a member of congress. Briggs ran for Texas's 7th congressional district and served from March 4, 1919, until he died in Washington, D.C., in 1933.

He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York.

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

United States Congress. "BRIGGS, Clay Stone (id: B000826)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• Biography in the Handbook of Texas Online