Hardin, Benjamin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1784, in Westmoreland county, Pa. In 1808 he moved to Bardstown, Ky.; was a member of the legislature in 1810, 1811, 1824, and 1825; and state senator from 1828 to 1832.
He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1815 to 1817, from 1819 to 1823, and from 1833 to 1837. He was secretary of state of Kentucky from 1844 to 1847; and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1849. He died Sept. 24, 1852, in Bardstown, Ky.