Hardin, Charles H
philanthropist, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 15, 1820, in Trumble county, Ky.
He was elected county attorney in Missouri; and in 1851 became one of the managers of the State Lunatic asylum.
In 1852 he was elected to the state legislature, and re-elected in 1855. He was one of a commission to revise the state laws; in 1858 was again elected to the legislature; and in 1860 to the state senate; and again elected to the senate in 1872. In the following year he was elected governor of Missouri.