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Senate Years of Service: 1843-1849 Party: Democrat
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HANNEGAN, Edward Allen, a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born in Hamilton County, Ohio, June
25, 1807; moved with his parents to Bourbon County, Ky., the same year; attended the public
schools; studied law, taught school and worked as a farm hand; admitted to the bar in 1827; moved to
Indiana and settled in Covington, where he commenced the practice of law; member, State house of
representatives 1832-1833, 1841-1842; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); was not a candidate for renomination in
1836; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1842 and
served from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1848;
chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Roads and
Canals (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Thirtieth Congress);
United States Minister to Prussia 1849-1850; resumed the practice of law in Covington; moved to St.
Louis, Mo., in 1857, where he continued to practice law until his death by overdose of morphine on
February 25, 1859; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.
Bibliography American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography.
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