Edward A. Hannegan

Edward Allen Hannegan ( born June 25, 1807, at Hamilton County, Ohio, † February 25, 1859 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, representing the state of Indiana in both chambers of Congress.

In the year of Edward Hanne goose birth his parents moved with him to Bourbon County in the state of Kentucky. There he attended the public schools, studied law and worked as a teacher and as an agricultural assistant. In 1827 he was then taken to the bar, after which he moved to Indiana. He lived first at Vincennes and Terre Haute, before he permanently settled in Covington and began practicing there as a lawyer.

Politically, he was active in his new home also. From 1832 to 1833 he sat in the House of Representatives of Indiana, in which he later from 1841 to 1842 returned again. Between March 4, 1833 and March 3, 1837 Hannegan belonged to the House of Representatives of the United States in Washington DC of. Initially he worked in the result again as a lawyer in Indiana, he eventually moved on March 4, 1843 in the U.S. Senate, where he remained until March 3, 1849. As nominated by his party not again, he had to go to one term out of the Congress resign. During his time in the Senate, he served as Chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims.

From June 30 1849 to January 13, 1850 Edward Hannegan served as an envoy of the United States in Prussia. After his return, he worked as a lawyer in Covington again until he moved in 1857 to St. Louis. He died two years later from an overdose of morphine.