He also lost a Senate seat to a Whig named Henry Geyer, but his political career was long enough for his autobiography to be titled Thirty Years' View.
After serving just one term, this man lost his seat in the House of Representatives to a candidate from the short-lived "Opposition Party". He also lost a Senate seat to a Whig named Henry Geyer, but his political career was long enough for his autobiography to be titled Thirty Years' View. This man led the successful effort to expunge the Senate's censure of Andrew Jackson. Despite being a slaveholder, he opposed the expansion of slavery at the end of his career. With the help of Vice President Millard Fillmore, this Senator blocked a plan to create a special committee to draft the Compromise of 1850, thus delaying that legislation and leading Mississippi Senator Henry S. Foote to draw a gun on this man. A failed bill introduced by this Senator was the basis for the Specie Circular, and this Democrat was the father-in-law of John C. Fremont. For 10 points, name this long-serving Missouri Senator whose opposition to paper money earned him the nickname "Old Bullion".
After serving just one term, this man lost his seat in the House of Representatives to a candidate from the short-lived "Opposition Party".
Thomas Hart Benton