Benning M. Bean

Benning Moulton Bean ( born January 9, 1782 in Moultonborough, Carroll County, New Hampshire; † February 6, 1866 ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benning Bean attended the public schools in his native Moultonborough. He also enjoyed an additional private training. In the following years he was active as a teacher and in agriculture. He also began to establish themselves in politics. From 1811 to 1829 and again from 1832 to 1838, ie during his time in Congress, he was a councilor in Moultonborough. In 1816, he served as a justice of the peace in his home. In 1824 he was curator of the Sandwich Academy.

Between 1815 and 1823, and again in 1827 was Bean deputy in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. From 1824 to 1826, and in 1831 and 1832 he was a member of the State Senate; in 1832 he was president of that body. In 1829 he was a member of the senior staff of the Governor. After the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s Bean joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded by this.

In the congressional elections of 1832, which were held all across the state, Bean was elected for the first parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1833, the successor of John Brodhead. After a re-election in 1834 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 two legislative sessions. These were overshadowed by discussions on the policies of President Jackson. It was mainly about the banking policy and Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina as well as the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act. While beans time in Congress in 1836 of the state of Arkansas was admitted to the Union.

In 1836, Bean refused another candidacy for Congress. As a result, he again worked as a teacher, he was also still engaged in agriculture. Politically, he has had no further significant office more. Benning Bean died on February 6, 1866 in his birthplace of Moultonborough.