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Edward Hannegan was born on June 25, 1807, in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. During his infancy his parents moved to Lexington, Kentucky.
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Edward Hannegan was born on June 25, 1807, in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. During his infancy his parents moved to Lexington, Kentucky.
Edward studied law at Transylvania University.
While trying to make a start in the practice of his profession, Edward Hannegan taught school and worked as a farm hand. In December 1829 he was chosen enrolling clerk by the lower house of the state legislature and on January 23, 1830, was elected by the legislature on joint ballot to serve for two years as prosecuting attorney for the first judicial district of the state. In August 1831 he was elected a member of the lower house, and the following year, a member of the national House of Representatives, to which he was reelected in 1834. As a member of the House (1833-1837), he was a stanch supporter of the Jackson administration and won considerable repute as an orator. Failing to secure a third term in Congress, he offered himself as a candidate for the state House of Representatives in 1841 and was elected.
Two years later Hannegan was elected - without a vote to spare and with one supporter a Whig - to the United States Senate, where he became an eloquent and aggressive champion of the policy of expansion, voicing the demand of the Old Northwest for the whole of the Oregon country, and leading his party before the nation with the cry “54° 40' or fight. ” When Polk agreed to divide the Oregon country with Great Britain, Hannegan delivered philippics before the Senate against the President, but, thanks in part to Polk’s tactfulness, the breach between them was afterward healed. In 1849, the Democrats in the General Assembly of Indiana deserted Hannegan and chose Gov. James Whitcomb to the Senate in his stead.
On learning of Hannegan’s defeat, his friends - both Whigs and Democrats - urged the President to find a place for him, and on March 3, 1849, Polk appointed him to the new post of minister at Berlin. Hannegan’s stay abroad was very brief, terminated in 1850.
Hannegan continued to have political aspirations, but his public career was ended. For a few years he again practised law at Covington, then moved to St. Louis, where he spent the last few years of his life, attaining a fair degree of success.
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Hannegan was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Hannegan was a Freemason.
Hannegan was bold and outspoken, and unable to control his appetite for drink. He even lost his seat in the House in 1836 because of his intemperance. At Covington, in 1852, Hannegan, under the influence of liquor, quarreled with this brother-in-law, whom he loved, and stabbed him. Captain Duncan, who seems to have been drinking also, had pressed the quarrel, and before he died absolved Hannegan from all blame. Hannegan then became a total abstainer. Aided by his wife, who stood by him through thick and thin, he struggled so successfully that he thought he had mastered himself. But after the death of his wife he continued drinking and developed a morphine habit.
Nevertheless, Hannegan was thoroughly sincere and hated dishonesty in private or public affairs. He was a man of brilliant talents and was popularly believed to depend more on his natural gifts than on work, but he sometimes wrote out beforehand the eloquent speeches which were supposed to be spontaneous and he had an extensive library.
Hannegan was married to Margaret Chambers Duncan, a sister of Capt. John R. Duncan of Newark, Ohio.