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Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of the young American Republic. The foremost Democratic leader in the Senate, he claimed to represent the rights of the common man against monied interests of the East. Benton and the people, the Missourian was fond of saying, are one and the samea bit of bombast that reveals a good deal about this seasoned politician who was himself a mass of contradictions. He possessed an enormous ego and a touchy sense of personal honor that led to violent results on several occasions. Yet this conflation of the people and their tribune raises questions not addressed in earlier biographies of Benton.

Mueller provides a fascinating portrait of Senator Benton. His political character, while viewed a

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 15/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9780875804798, 978-0875804798
      ISBN10: 0875804799
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      Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of the young American Republic. The foremost Democratic leader in the Senate, he claimed to represent the rights of the common man against monied interests of the East. Benton and the people, the Missourian was fond of saying, are one and the samea bit of bombast that reveals a good deal about this seasoned politician who was himself a mass of contradictions. He possessed an enormous ego and a touchy sense of personal honor that led to violent results on several occasions. Yet this conflation of the people and their tribune raises questions not addressed in earlier biographies of Benton.

      Mueller provides a fascinating portrait of Senator Benton. His political character, while viewed a

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