- Adam Lewis Bingaman
Adam Lewis Bingaman (aka A. L. Bingaman) born c. 1790 in
Mississippi , diedSeptember 6 ,1869 inNew Orleans, Louisiana .1 Bingaman studied law inMassachusetts , graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, [http://surnamesite.com/harvard/harvard1812.htm Harvard University Class of 1812] . While in Boston he met and married Julia Maria Murray, daughter ofJudith Sargent Murray , feminist, poet, and writer of theUniversalist Church in America .Plantation Life
Murray and her daughter went to live at "Fatherland", the Bingaman family plantation in
Natchez, Mississippi .2 Life on the plantation was privileged. The noted race horse,Lexington (horse) was stabled at the Bingham plantation while being trained byJohn Benjamin Pryor , the horse trainer at the top of his field. Bingaman was a slaveholder, holding 230 slaves in 1850 and 310 in 1860.3 Bingaman had a relationship with a free-black woman, Mary E. Williams, and may have fathered as many as six children: Frances Ann, wife of Pryor; Cordelia, Emilie, Marie Sophie Charlotte, James and Henriette.4Orator, Political Life
As a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1833, Bingaman headed a select committee during the
Nullification Crisis that preceded theAmerican Civil War .5 He served as the president of the State Senate from 1838 to 1840. Bingaman was described by his peers as "a man of rare qualifications for a popular leader, being gifted by nature in mind and personal appearance (which was most dignified and commanding), with a polished education and fascinating manners; he was a natural orator."6 After Charles Lynch was elected governor of Mississippi, Bingaman read Lynch's inaugural speech to the Mississippi Assembly.7 Bingaman's reputation as an orator was heightened by his speech to GeneralAndrew Jackson at Natchez in January 1840.8References
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title = Ancestry.com: New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804-1949
url=http://www.ancestry.com
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title = Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
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title = Ancestry.com: US Census Slave Schedules, 1850 and 1860
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title = Blackness as Property: Sex, Race, Status and Wealth
author = Mitch Crusto, Loyola University, New Orleans, School of Law
url=http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1732&context=expresso
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title = Nullification in Mississippi
url=http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/Nullif.htm
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title = Auburn: The Home of Stephen Duncan
url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~msissaq2/duncan2.html
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title = Mississippi History Now
url=http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature47/governors/6_charles_lynch.htm
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title = Library of Congress
url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@OR(@field(AUTHOR+@3(Bingaman,+Adam+L++))+@field(OTHER+@3(Bingaman,+Adam+L++)))
accessdate = 2006-12-24
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