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Missouri Historical Review, Volume 10 Issue 3, April 1916

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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 10 Issue 3, April 1916
Volume	10
Issue	3
Month	April
Year	1916
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright © The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582

Title	Page 151
Page Number	151
Article Title	Early Opposition to Thomas Hart Benton
Author	McClure, C. H.
Subject	Politics
Volume	10
Issue	3
Month	April
Year	1916
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	The Missouri Historical Review Vol X, No. 3 Columbia April, 1916 EARLY OPPOSITION TO THOMAS HART BENTON. C. H. McCLURE. In February, 1850, Thomas Hart Benton was defeated for reelection to the Senate of the United States. The contest in which Benton lost his seat in the Senate has several characteristics which make it stand out prominently in the history of the State and of the Nation. The passage of the Jackson resolutions marks a definite time at which the contest seemed to begin. Two questions which later became of great significance to the entire nation—the right of Congress to prohibit slavery in a territory, and disunion—were the issues. The struggle was marked by one of the most spectacular and vindictive speaking campaigns in our history. The apparent suddenness, the later significance of the issues involved, and the spectacular nature of the contest seem to have satisfied all investigators that the overthrow of Benton was to be attributed entirely to this contest and the issues involved in it. Thus Meigs, Rogers, and Roosevelt, the three biographers of Benton, agree that after his first election in 1820 he was elected practically without opposition until his defeat in 1850 j1 while Ray in his "Repeal of the Missouri Compromise" places the beginning of the contest in 1844, »Meigs, Life of Benton, p. 407f; Rogers, Life of Benton, p. 36; Roosevelt, Life of Benton, p. 351. (151)

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