This man was present, but not killed, during the explosion on the USS Princeton that killed Abel P. Upshur, and after his retirement he published an autobiography entitled Thirty Years View.  
This man was present, but not killed, during the explosion on the USS Princeton that killed Abel P. Upshur, and after his retirement he published an autobiography entitled Thirty Years View.  Charles Lucas dueled this man on Bloody Island after accusing him of lying, and he was succeeded in his most famous post by Henry S. Geyer.  He authored a series of Homestead Acts, and he gained his nickname after introducing a version of the Specie Circular into the Senate.  He was almost shot by Henry Foote during a series of debates on the Compromise of 1850, and he supported his son-in-law John C. Fremont's expeditions to California.  Also notable for attacking Andrew Jackson in a Nashville Hotel in 1813, for 10 points, name this nineteenth-century Missouri Senator nicknamed "Old Bullion".
This man was present, but not killed, during the explosion on the USS Princeton that killed Abel P. Upshur, and after his retirement he published an autobiography entitled Thirty Years View.  
Thomas Hart {Benton}