S9.com / Biographies /
Benton, Thomas Hart(Old Bullion)
Died: 1858 AD, at 76 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Lawyers, Politician
US lawyer and Democratic politician
1782 - Born on the 14th of March in Harts Mill, North Carolina.
1799 - Studied law at the University of North Carolina, but left school to manage the family estate.
1805 - Continued his legal education and was admitted to the Tennessee bar.
1809 - Served a term as state senator.
1812 - Jackson made Benton his aide-de-camp, with a commission as a lieutenant colonel.
1815 - Moved his estate to the newly-opened Missouri Territory.
1821-1851 - Senator from Missouri.
1836 - Drafted Specie Circular.
1853-1855 - Benton served as Representative from Missouri.
1852 - He successfully ran for the United States House of Representatives.
1854 - He ran for governor of Missouri, but lost.
- Wrote 2-volume memoir "Thirty Years' View".
1858 - Thomas Hart Benton died on 10th of April.
Opposed slavery and paper currency.
| | Page last updated: 5:07pm, 20th Jan '07 |
Related Books
  |
Thomas Hart Benton, a portrait by Polly Burroughs (Hardcover - Jul 6, 1981) |
 |
  |
Thomas Hart Benton by Matthew Baigell (Unknown Binding - Jul 6, 1975) |
|
  |
Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals (Distributed for the Indiana University Art Museum) by Kathleen A. Foster and Nanette Esseck Brewer and Margaret Contompasis (Paperback - Aug 15, 2001) Decorating the Indiana hall at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago was a bold and colorful sequence of paintings by American muralist Thomas Hart Benton depicting the social, economic,... Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
  |
An Artist in America; 4th Edition by Thomas Hart Benton (Paperback - Jun 10, 1983)  Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
 |
Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original by Henry Adams (Paperback - Aug 12, 1989) |
|
 |
Old Bullion Benton: Senator from the New West by William Nisbet Chambers (Hardcover - Jul 6, 2008) |
|
