Benjamin Hardin

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Benjamin Hardin
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27th Secretary of State of Kentucky
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GovernorWilliam Owsley
Preceded byJames Harlan
Succeeded byGeorge B. Kinkead
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky
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Preceded byWilliam Pope Duval
Succeeded byThomas Speed
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Succeeded byFrancis Johnson
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Preceded byJohn Adair
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Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
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Member of the Kentucky Senate
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1810–1811
1824–1825
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PartyDemocratic-Republican
National Republican
RelationsFather-in-law of John L. Helm
Cousin of Martin Davis Hardin
Cousin of Charles A. Wickliffe
ProfessionLawyer
SignatureBen Hardin

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Benjamin Hardin (February 29, 1784 – September 24, 1852) was an American politician who was a United States representative from Kentucky. Martin Davis Hardin was his cousin.

Biography

Hardin was born at the Georges Creek settlement on the Monongahela River, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and then moved with his parents to Washington County, Kentucky in 1788. He attended the schools of Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky before studying law. Admitted to the bar in 1806, he commenced practice in Elizabethtown and Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, and then settled in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1808. He owned slaves.[1]

Hardin was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1810, 1811, 1824, and 1825 and served in the Kentucky Senate 1828–1832. He was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817) and reelected as a Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1823). He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837).

After leaving Congress, Hardin served as the Secretary of State of Kentucky 1844–1847. He served as a member of the Kentucky constitutional convention in 1849.

Death and interment

Hardin died in Bardstown, Kentucky in 1852 and was buried in the family burying ground near Springfield, Kentucky.

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-19, retrieved 2022-07-10

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