James Lanman
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James Lanman was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States Senate from 1819 to 1825. He was a cousin of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Portrait of Lanman by Chester Harding (courtesy Yale University Art Gallery)
Thomas Hart Benton, nicknamed "Old Bullion", was an American politician, attorney, soldier, and longtime United States senator from Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he was an architect and
James Lanman
…Missouri Compromise and was burned in effigy in his native town, Norwich, but his broad patriotism won from him the warmest friendship of Henry Clay and Thomas H. Benton." Lanman published a notable Fourth of July address to the citizens of Norwich on the 22nd anniversary of United States independence in 1798. While…
Thomas Hart Benton
Daguerreotype of Thomas Hart Benton, c. 1850
Benton's grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery
Statue of Benton by Harriet Hosmer erected in 1868 in St. Louis at Lafayette Park