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Benton, Thomas Hart, -1858
Statesman; born near Hillsboro, N. C., March 14, 1782.
Before finishing his studies at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina, he removed to Tennessee, studied law, and obtained great eminence in his profession.
In the legislature of that State he procured the enactment of a law giving to slaves the benefit of a jury trial, and also succeeded in having a law passed which reformed the judicial system of the State.
He had been on intimate terms with General Jackson at Nashville (1813), when a quarrel ensued, and in a personal encounter in that town with deadly weapons both parties gave and received severe wounds.
He was colonel of a Tennessee regiment from December, 1812, to April, 1813, and lieutenant-colonel in the regular army from 1813 to 1815.
Removing to St. Louis in 1813, he established the Missouri inquirer there, and practised his profession.
He took an
Thomas Hart Benton. active part in favoring the admission of Missouri as a State of the