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Definition of Thomas Hart Benton

1. Noun. United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975).

2. Noun. United States legislator who opposed the use of paper currency (1782-1858).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Bowdler Thomas Bradley Thomas Carew Thomas Carlyle Thomas Chippendale Thomas Clayton Wolfe Thomas Crawford Thomas De Quincey Thomas Decker Thomas Dekker

Thomas Edison Thomas Edward Lawrence Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gray Thomas Hardy Thomas Hart Benton (current term) Thomas Hastings Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Higginson Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Thomas Hunt Morgan Thomas Huxley Thomas J. Hanks Thomas J. Jackson Thomas Jackson Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jonathan Jackson Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.

Literary usage of Thomas Hart Benton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"Thomas Hart Benton. The first legislature of the state of Missouri, which convened in ... The reason Missouri did not secede was Col. Thomas Hart Benton ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"Thomas Hart Benton TO JAMES P. PRESTON [From 'The Life of Thomas Hart Benton,' by Wm. M. Meigs. Copyright, 1904, 1906, JB Lippincott Company. ..."

3. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"Thomas Hart Benton was born near Hillsborough, North Carolina, March i-jth, 1782; was United States Senator trom Missouri, 1821-1851; a Representative in ..."

4. A History of Missouri by Eugene Morrow Violette (1918)
"Removal to Tennessee CHAPTER XII THE DOWNFALL OF Thomas Hart Benton ... IN 1851 Thomas Hart Benton, after having served Missouri in the United States Senate ..."

5. Southern Literature from 1579-1895: A Comprehensive Review, with Copious by Louise Manly (1895)
"It moves from one flower to another like a gleam of light, upwards, downwards, to the right, and to the left Thomas Hart Benton. 1782-1858. ..."

6. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History edited by Guy Carleton Lee (1902)
"... Thomas Hart Benton Thomas Hart Benton was born in North Carolina in 1782. While he was yet a lad his family removed to Tennessee, where he was called to ..."

7. Source-book of American History: Ed. for Schools and Readers by Albert Bushnell Hart (1899)
"... Shad- rach's rescuers, the jury failed to agree, one of them being the man who had carried Shadrach across the line into Canada. By Thomas Hart Benton ..."

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