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Senator Benton and the People: Master Race Democracy on the Early American Frontiers

Senator Benton and the People: Master Race Democracy on the Early American Frontiers

Mueller, Ken

Paperback

Series: Early American Places (New York University Press)

Political Biographies19th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0875807003
ISBN13: 9780875807003
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: May 15 2014
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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 same--a 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.

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