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	Thomas Hart Benton (senator) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782–April 10, 1858), nicknamed Old Bullion, was an American Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States.
		Benton was an architect and champion of westward expansion by the United States, a cause that became known as Manifest Destiny.
		Benton advocated the annexation of Texas and argued for abrogation of the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty in which the United States relinquished claims to that territory, but he was opposed to the machinations that led to its annexation in 1845 and the Mexican-American War.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(senator) (1270 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri into an influential clan of politicians and powerbrokers.
		Benton's father was a lawyer and US congressman; his great-uncle was 19th-century statesman Senator Thomas Hart Benton, after whom he was named.
		Benton's sympathy was with the agricultural working class and the small farmer, caught in the path of the Industrial Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter) (655 words)

	Benton, Thomas Hart, U.S. Senator. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Hillsboro, N.C. Benton moved to Tennessee in 1809, was admitted to the bar in 1811, and served (1809–11) in the state senate.
		Benton also supported all legislation that aided settlers and favored the development of the West, including reduction in the price of government lands, suppression of land speculation, westward removal of the Native Americans, and internal improvements.
		Benton had early come to favor the gradual abolition of slavery, and with the ascendancy of the proslavery Democrats he lost influence in the party.
	www.bartleby.com /65/be/BentonSen.html (472 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton (painter) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 - January 19, 1975, also Tom Benton) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A painter of murals) muralist of the (Click link for more info and facts about Regionalist) Regionalist school.
		Benton's father was a lawyer and (Click link for more info and facts about US congressman) US congressman; his great-uncle was 19th-century statesman Senator (United States legislator who opposed the use of paper currency (1782-1858)) Thomas Hart Benton, after whom he was named.
		Benton returned to (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City in 1913 and continued painting.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter).htm (813 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton
		What captured Benton's interest, he later wrote, was the Synchromists' use of Baroque rhythms, derived not from Cezanne's work, as was the case with most of the Parisian painters who had experimented with such rhythms, but from the more basic source of Michelangelo's sculpture.
		Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism, by Erika Lee Doss.
		Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals, by Kathleen A. Foster.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/B/benton.html (1306 words)

	THOMAS HART BENTON (SENATOR)
		Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782 - April 10, 1858), nicknamed Old Bullion, was an American Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States.
		Benton was born in Harts Mill, North Carolina, near the present-day town of Hillsboro.
		Benton was assigned to represent Jackson's interests to military officials in Washington D.C; he chafed under the position, which denied him combat experience.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/THOMAS+HART+BENTON+%2528SENATOR%2529 (1157 words)

	Encyclopedia: Thomas Hart Benton (senator)
		Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives.
		Benton County is a county located in the state of Oregon.
		Benton County is a county located in the south central of the state of Washington.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Hart-Benton-(senator) (2782 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Hart Benton, along with his contemporaries Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry, was one of the key chroniclers and interpreters of American life from the late 1920s through the mid-twentieth century.
		The son of Congressman Colonel Maecenas Eason Benton and Elizabeth Wise of Neosho, Missouri, and the great-nephew and namesake of the celebrated U.S. Senator from Missouri, Benton was born and raised in the rural Ozark town of Neosho.
		Benton destroyed most of the maquettes after use, but of the few to survive is a model for Turn of the Century, Joplin (The Benton Trust), a mural Benton executed in 1971 for the Municipal Building in Joplin, Missouri.
	www.spanierman.com /feature/bio_benton_thomas_hart.htm (1034 words)

	U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Profiles in Courage
		Thomas Hart Benton, Senator from Missouri, was included in the book primarily for his actions in 1847-1849 against John C. Calhoun's resolutions to keep Congress from interfering with the introduction of slavery in new territories.
		Benton’s refusal to vote for Calhoun’s resolutions cost him the popularity he previously had in his state, and he was stripped of all of his committee memberships except Foreign Relations.
		Benton was voted out of office in 1851, returned to Congress in 1853 as a Representative, but lost his seat in 1855 and spent the remaining years of his life fruitlessly seeking a return to public office.
	www.senate.gov /reference/reference_item/Profiles_In_Courage.htm (2295 words)

	thomas hart benton
		Thomas Hart Benton was born on March 14, 1782, in Harts Mill, (near Hillsboro) North Carolina.
		Benton was famous for his efforts to establish a liberal system of land distribution that would discourage speculators but enable honest settlers to purchase public lands at low prices.
		Benton died in Washington D.C. on April 10, 1858 at the age of 76.
	206.61.210.104 /html/thomas_hart_benton.htm (1025 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site - Teacher's Guide - Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., in April 1889.
		Benton was teaching art classes for a neighborhood association and she was one of his students.
		- Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals.
	www.mostateparks.com /benton/teachguide.htm (1909 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton
		Thomas Hart Benton was born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and moved to Tennessee in 1809.
		Benton moved to Missouri and became a newspaper editor, was active in public affairs and in 1821 was elected as the state’s first Senator.
		Benton was in general a supporter of Andrew Jackson (the two were reconciled) and an opponent of John C. Calhoun.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h274.html (299 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Classic Senate Speeches
		On the Senate floor, the tall, ruggedly built Benton was known less for his oratory than for a prodigious marshalling of facts to support or oppose legislation.
		Although the senator had completed only one year of college, he was a painstaking researcher and an energetic student of history, with a retentive memory.
		Benton took the passage of the individual bills as a vindication of his position that the compromise should pass as separate measures if at all, but being right could not save his political career.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/Speeches_Benton1850.htm (719 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton biography
		The leading political advocate of the push west was Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, a formidable public orator.
		Benton also saw life in the west as a way that poor farmers and workmen in the East could fulfil their destiny and carve out an exciting new American way of life, completely distanced from any British colonial influence.
		Benton was also in favor of moderation with regard to the dispute with Mexico over the Southwest territory.
	pa.essortment.com /thomashartbent_rben.htm (634 words)

	Transcript - Thomas Hart Benton
		Although he was the great-nephew of Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the son of a congressman, Tom Benton knew early in life that his future lay not in politics, but in art.
		Benton's interest in mural painting actually took hold in his youth when he was living in Washington D.C. and visiting the Library of Congress, where there were prominent and very beautiful murals from the turn of the century.
		Benton was someone, especially during the 30s and 40s, when regionalism was so influential and so prominent, it was hard to be neutral about him.
	ktwu.washburn.edu /journeys/scripts/2003/1608b.html (1075 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site - General Information - Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Benton was born in Neosho, Mo. in 1889, the son of Missouri Congressman Maecenas E. Benton and grand nephew of Missouri's first senator, Thomas Hart "Old Bullion" Benton.
		Benton spent several years perfecting a new method of planning his paintings by using clay models to help with the spatial organization of the design.
		Benton, renowned painter, sculptor, lecturer and writer, was a man of enormous vitality and inner strength.
	www.mostateparks.com /benton/geninfo.htm (726 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton . Benton Profile \| PBS
		Benton then went on to Paris and, finally, to New York, where he persevered as an impoverished painter for more than a decade but found his "regionalist" roots.
		Benton was at war with the Eastern art establishment from the moment he hit his stride as a determinedly realistic painter.
		Benton already was a summer neighbor of theirs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where Tom and Rita spent every summer for 50 years.
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/benton/benton (991 words)

	Maine Local Government - Town of Benton - Main Page
		Benton, a town in Kennebec County, was incorporated as Sebasticook on March 16, 1842 from land set off from Clinton.
		Benton Station is a location in the town of Benton near the Maine Central Railroad tracts and across the Kennebec River from Fairfield.
		Benton is the birthplace of longtime U.S. Congressional parliamentarian and U.S. Representative Asher C. Hinds.
	www.state.me.us /local/kennebec/benton (88 words)

	Missouri Secretary of State Kids: Fun Facts... Some Famous Missourians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Hart Benton (senator) (Born 1782; died 1858)- Benton has been called the “most distinguished statesman accredited to Missouri.” He was a fighter for the common man, which earned him the nickname “Old Bullion.” Benton was one of Missouri’s first senators in 1820.
		Benton was involved in important national issues including Missouri’s statehood through the slavery crisis of the 1850’s.
		Benton became a leader during those early statehood years, and was a supporter of Jacksonian Democracy.
	www.sos.mo.gov /kids/facts/famous-missourians.asp (549 words)

	Benton, Thomas Hart -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Originally called Brunson Harbor and a part of St. Joseph, it was renamed for Thomas Hart Benton (a Missouri senator who had supported statehood for Michigan) and was separately incorporated as a village in 1869,...
		Born on March 14, 1782, in Hillsborough, N.C., Thomas Hart Benton was a state senator in Tennessee but moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1815 to become editor of the Missouri Enquirer and to practice law.
		Thomas Hart Benton was an important member of this group.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078671?tocId=9078671&query=thomas (696 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton . Timeline \| PBS
		Thomas Hart Benton is born in Neosho, Missouri; he is named for his uncle, Senator Thomas Hart Benton.
		Benton travels to Paris to study art; returns to Missouri but is quickly sent to New York where he struggles to find his artistic voice.
		Benton returns again to Missouri to tend to his dying father; has renewed interest in the American countryside and in "Americana" finds the focus that will define his art.
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/benton/timeline (506 words)

	Benton, Thomas Hart (1782-1858), American statesman, born in Hillsborough, North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the War of 1812 he raised a regiment of volunteers and also served on the staff of General Andrew Jackson, later president of the U.S. Afterward Benton established a newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri.
		From 1821 to 1851 he was U.S. senator from Missouri, and later served (1853-55) in the House of Representatives.
		In the Senate he was a determined opponent of nullification.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /498R/doc1/Benton.html (145 words)

	Benton County, Oregon - Wikimedia Commons
		Benton County is a county located in the state of Category:Oregon.
		The county was named after Thomas Hart Benton, a US senator who, with his colleague Lewis F. Linn, advocated the extension of US control into the Oregon Country.
		The county seat of Benton County is Corvallis.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Benton_County,_Oregon (64 words)

	History of Benton County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Benton County (1980 population 25,187) was one of the original nine counties established by the territorial legislature in 1849 and was one of the three which were declared organized.
		The county was named in honor of Thomas Hart Benton, a senator from Missouri, who worked diligently to have Congress enact the Homestead Act.
		The Benton County Museum, located at 218 First Street North in Sauk Rapids, depicts the story of the development of Benton County through the use of artifacts, pictures, and printed materials.
	www.co.benton.mn.us /about_us/history.htm (572 words)

	Independence and the Opening of the West-Thomas Hart Benton
		Thomas Hart Benton, an American Regionalist artist, was born in Neosho, Missouri in 1889.
		Benton was treated to an extensive education that involved many travels.
		Benton began work on the mural in early 1960, three years after the founding of the Truman Library.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /teacher/benton.htm (2481 words)

	Scholastic Art: Thomas Hart Benton: American storyteller.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Young Thomas Hart Benton had created his first mural.
		But Benton kept drawing trains--and soldiers, cowboys, and American Indians--anytime he found a blank piece of paper.
		Thomas Hart Benton wasn't supposed to be an artist.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:123853434&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (179 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton (painter) - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1907 Benton enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, but left for Paris in 1909 to continue his art education at the Académie Julien.
		In Paris Benton met other North American artists such as Diego Rivera and Stanton Macdonald Wright, an advocate of Synchronism.
		On return to New York in the early twenties, Benton declared himself an "enemy of modernism" and began the naturalistic and representational work today known as Regionalism.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter) (600 words)

	Minnesota Secretary of State - Elections
		U.S. Senator and Congressman from Kentucky variously during the period 1806-52; U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-29; three times Speaker of the House, and three times a candidate for president.
		Henry Dodge, was territorial governor, delegate in Congress and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, 1836-57.
		Augustus Dodge was delegate to Congress for Iowa Territory, 1840-47 and U.S. Senator from Iowa, 1848-55.
	www.sos.state.mn.us /student/coorigan.html (1900 words)

	ALGenWeb : Biography : Thomas H. Benton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Hart Benton was a leading U.S. Senator and a national figure in the Jacksonian era.
		Benton associated with the established leadership of St. Louis and became editor of the St. Louis Enquirer in 1818.
		He was defeated for reelection to the Senate, though he served one term in the House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855.
	www.rootsweb.com /~alcalhou/thb.htm (266 words)

	The Art History of Missouri: Thomas Hart Benton
		In December of 1936, Thomas Hart Benton finished what is possibly his most famous and most seen works ever.
		Over the three doors in the Missouri House of Representatives lounge, Benton illustrated the legend of "Frankie and Johnny." This barroom scene is a memorial to the famed lover's quarrel in the late 1880's in St. Louis that ended in murder.
		Benton adapted the Greek legend of Achelous and Hercules to a Missouri setting.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Exhibit/5437/Benton.html (1252 words)

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