Benjamin Hardin

Benjamin Hardin

Benjamin Hardin (born February 29, 1784 in Westmoreland County , Pennsylvania , †  September 24, 1852 in Bardstown , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1815 and 1837 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

Benjamin Hardin was a cousin of Martin D. Hardin (1780-1823), who was US Senator for Kentucky between 1815 and 1817 . He was born in a small settlement on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania. In 1788 he moved with his parents to Washington County , later state of Kentucky. There he attended public schools. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1806, he began to work in Elizabethtown and Bardstown in this profession. Since 1808 he was based in Bardstown. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party. In the years 1810 and 1811 and again from 1824 to 1825 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kentucky . From 1820 to 1821 he served as Attorney General of Kentucky. Between 1828 and 1832 he was a member of the State Senate .

In the congressional elections of 1814 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Thomas Montgomery on March 4, 1815 . Until March 3, 1817, he could initially only complete one legislative period in Congress . After he was replaced by Thomas Speed between 1817 and 1819 , he was able to win back his old mandate in the elections of 1818. After being re-elected, he was able to spend two more terms in the US House of Representatives between March 4, 1819 and March 3, 1823.

In the following years he joined the movement against future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the National Republican Party , a predecessor of the Whig Party . In the 1832 election, Hardin was re-elected to Congress in the Seventh District of Kentucky. There he replaced John Adair on March 4, 1833 . After being re-elected, he could remain in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1837. Since President's inauguration in 1829, the politics of Congress have been hotly debated inside and outside. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

From 1844 to 1847, Hardin served as Secretary of State in the State Government of Kentucky. In 1849 he was a member of an assembly to revise the state constitution. Benjamin Hardin died in Bardstown on September 24, 1852. He was buried in the family cemetery in Springfield .

Web links

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• Benjamin Hardin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• 91657193 Benjamin Hardin in the database of Find a Grave (English)