Thomas Hart Benton

14 Mar 1782 – 10 Apr 1858

Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782 – April 10, 1858), nicknamed "Old Bullion", was an American politician, attorney, soldier, and longtime United States senator from Missouri.

• Selections of editorial articles from the St. Louis Enquirer, on the subject of Oregon and Texas, as originally published in that paper in the years 1818-19
• Texas annexation bill
• Eulogy delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 2d day of February, 1844, on the annunciation to that body of the death of the Hon. Alexander Porter, late a senator from Louisiana
• Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case
• Historical and legal examination of that part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case
• Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case, which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act ..
• Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case, which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the self-extension of the Constitution to territorie
• Letter from Col. Benton to the people of Missouri
• Mr. Benton's anti-cession speech
• Mr. Benton's anti-compromise speech
• Mr. Benton's letter to Maj. Gen. Davis, of the state of Mississippi, declining the nomination of the convention of that state; defending the nomination of Mr. Van Buren for the presidency; and recommending harmony, concert, and union, to the Democratic pa
• Mr. Benton's letter to Maj. Gen. Davis, of the state of Mississippi, declining the nomination of the nomination of the convention of that state; defending the nomination of Mr. Van Buren for the presidency; and recommending harmony, concert, and union, to