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Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782 – April 10, 1858), nicknamed "Old Bullion", was an American politician, attorney, soldier, and longtime United States Senator from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he was an architect and champion of westward expansion by the United States, a cause that became known as Manifest Destiny.
Thomas Hart Benton (born March 14, 1782, near Hillsborough, North Carolina, U.S.—died April 10, 1858, Washington, D.C.) was an American writer and Democratic Party leader who championed agrarian interests and westward expansion during his 30-year tenure as a senator from Missouri.
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Thomas Hart Benton: A Featured Biography. As a hotheaded youth on the frontier Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) once fought a duel with Andrew Jackson, who carried Benton's bullet in his body for the rest of his life.
- HE WAS A FOREMOST REGIONALIST ARTIST. "Planting" (1939) Sharon Mollerus via Flickr // CC BY 2.0. Thomas Hart Benton was one of the best known American artists of the early and middle 20th century, and he was a leading member of the art movement known as Regionalism.
- HE CAME FROM AN INFLUENTIAL FAMILY. Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri in 1889. His father was Maecenas Benton, a four-term Congressman from the Show Me State with the nickname the “little giant of the Ozarks.”
- BENTON WAS NAMED FOR A FAMOUS RELATIVE. His father named him for his own great-uncle Thomas Hart Benton, who was one of the first two senators from Missouri when it became a state.
- BENTON’S MOTHER HELPED HIM DEFY HIS FATHER'S WISHES. Benton’s father sent him to a military boarding school and wanted him to study the law. But Benton wanted to study art, and was assisted with this by his mother, Elizabeth Benton, who helped send him to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the age of 18.
Thomas Hart Benton, nicknamed "Old Bullion", was an American politician, attorney, soldier, and longtime United States Senator from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he was an architect and champion of westward expansion by the United States, a cause that became known as Manifest Destiny.
Thomas Hart Benton was Missouri’s premier politician from the time it became a state in 1821 until 1854. His defeat marked the beginning of a conflict that would divide the nation over the issue of slavery.
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Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a prominent lawyer and political leader during the first half of the 1800s. During his five terms as a U.S. senator, Benton played a major role in many national debates.
