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| | Bingham, George Caleb. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Augusta co., Va. His family moved (1819) to Missouri, which was the site of most of Binghams activities. |
 | | Journeys on the Mississippi and through the South resulted in such paintings as Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (Metropolitan Mus.); Daniel Boone Coming Through the Cumberland Gap (1851; Washington Univ., St. Louis); and Raftsmen Playing Cards (City Art Mus., St. Louis). |
 | | Bingham entered Missouri politics with his election to the legislature in 1848 (he had been defeated in 1846); he served as state treasurer (186265), after a year in the Union army, and became state adjutant general in 1875. |
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