Martin D. Hardin

Martin D. Hardin ( born June 21, 1780 in Pennsylvania, † October 8, 1823 in Frankfort, Kentucky ) was an American politician of the Federalist Party, who represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.

Martin Hardin was born in western Pennsylvania near the Monongahela River; His father John was an officer in the Continental Army. In 1786 his parents moved with him to Kentucky, where he began an academic education and attended the Transylvania Seminary in Lexington. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar and started in Richmond and in Frankfort to practice as a lawyer. From 1806 to 1806, and again in 1812, Hardin was as a Member of the House of Representatives from Kentucky. During the British - American War of 1812 he served in the rank of Major in the army. He returned to politics and served from 1812 to 1816 as Secretary of State of Kentucky.

Following the resignation of U.S. Senator William T. Barry Hardin was appointed to succeed him in Congress; immediately afterwards he confirmed the Parliament of Kentucky in this mandate. He remained only on 13 November 1816 to March 3, 1817 in Washington, before he returned to Kentucky, where he sat from 1818 to 1820 in the state Senate. He practiced from 1819 from the Office of the Speaker.

Hardin died 1823 in Frankfort, and was buried on his farm in Franklin County. His cousin Benjamin Hardin was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for Kentucky, his son John took there the state of Illinois.