Charles Henry Hardin

Charles Henry Hardin (* July 15, 1820 in Trimble County, Kentucky, † July 29, 1892 in Mexico, Missouri ) was an American politician and from 1875 to 1877 the 22nd Governor of Missouri.

Early years

Charles Hardin attended Indiana University, Miami University and Oxford College in Ohio. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1843 as a lawyer. Between 1848 and 1852 he was an attorney in the Second Judicial District of Missouri.

Political career

In the years 1852, 1854 and 1858 Hardin was elected to the House of Representatives from Missouri. In 1855 he was a member of a committee to revise the state laws. Between 1860 and 1862, and again from 1872 to 1874 he was a member of the State Senate. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he sympathized with the Confederacy and supported the emergence of Missouri from the Union, but was not completed. By this attitude he fell in the 1860s, partly in the political sidelines. But towards the end of the decade he succeeded with his Democratic Party 's return to the political arena. On November 5, 1874, he was elected governor of his state.

Hardin took up his new post on 12 January 1875. In his two -year term, a new regional constitution entered into force and the city of St. Louis has been taken out of the same County. Otherwise, his term was uneventful. It ended on February 8, 1877.

Further CV

After the end of his tenure, Hardin withdrew from politics. He founded a girls' school in Mexico ( Missouri). In this city he has also died in 1892. He was married to Mary Barr Jenkins.