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
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
Jessie Benton Frémont
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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont was an American writer and political activist. She was the daughter of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the wife of military officer, explorer, and politician John C.
Thomas Hart Benton (politician)
…in 1854. He ran for Governor of Missouri in 1856, but lost to Trusten Polk. That same year, his son-in-law, John C. Frémont, husband of his daughter Jessie, ran for President on the Republican Party ticket; but Benton was a party loyalist to the end and voted for Democratic nominee James Buchanan, who won…
Photo taken in 1876
In 1841, Jessie married John C. Frémont, a U.S. Army officer
Frémont sitting at home in Los Angeles