Benjamin Hardin
Benjamin Hardin (* February 29, 1784 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, † September 24, 1852 in Bardstown, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1837 he represented several times the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Benjamin Hardin was a cousin of Martin D. Hardin (1780-1823), who was 1815-1817 U.S. Senator for Kentucky. He was born in a small settlement on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania. In 1788 he moved with his parents in the Washington County in the state of Kentucky later. There he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1806 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Elizabethtown and Bardstown to work in this profession. Since 1808, he has been resident in Bardstown. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the years 1810 and 1811 and again from 1824 to 1825 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Between 1828 and 1832 he was a member of the State Senate.
In the congressional elections of 1814 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Montgomery on March 4, 1815. Until March 3, 1817, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress. After he had been relieved 1817-1819 by Thomas Speed , he was able to regain his old seat in the elections of 1818. After a re-election he was able to spend between 4 March 1819 and the March 3, 1823 two other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In the following years, he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the National Republican Party, a predecessor of the Whig party. In the elections of 1832 Hardin was elected to Congress again in the seventh district of Kentucky. There he broke on March 4, 1833 from John Adair. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1837 the House of Representatives. Since the assumption of office of President in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.
In the years 1844 to 1847 Hardin was managing as Secretary of State official of the State Government of Kentucky. In 1849 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. Benjamin Hardin died on September 24, 1852 in Bardstown. He was buried in the family cemetery in Springfield.