Aaron Harding (February 20, 1805 – December 24, 1875) was a
United States representative
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from
Kentucky
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and a slaveholder.
He was born near
Campbellsville, in what is now
Green County, where he attended rural schools. He became familiar with the classics, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1833, having commenced his practice in
Greensburg, Kentucky. He was also known as Aaron Hardin.
Harding was elected prosecuting attorney of Green County in 1833. He was member of the
Kentucky House of Representatives
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in 1840 and was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses and as a
Democrat
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to the
Thirty-ninth Congress
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(March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1867).
He was a delegate to the
Union National Convention
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in 1866. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in
Danville, Kentucky. He died in
Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1875 and was interred at Georgetown Cemetery there.
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1805 births
1875 deaths
People from Green County, Kentucky
Unionist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
Kentucky Unionists
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
Democratic Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Politicians from Danville, Kentucky
People from Greensburg, Kentucky
19th-century American politicians