George Caleb Bingham Born: 20-Mar-1811 Birthplace: Augusta County, VA Died: 7-Jul-1879 Location of death: Kansas City, MO Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Union Cemetery, Kansas City, MO
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Painter Party Affiliation: Democratic [1] Nationality: United States Executive summary: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri [1] Originally, a Whig.
Father: Henry Vest Bingham (d. 1823) Mother: Mary Amend Wife: Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson (m. 1835, d. 1848) Daughter: Clara Son: Newton Son: Horace (killed in Civil War) Wife: Eliza Thomas (m. 1849, d. in lunatic asylum) Wife: Martha Livingston Lykins ("Mattie", m. 1878, until his death)
Teacher: Art, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Missouri State Official Adjutant-General of Missouri (1875-77) Missouri State Official President, Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners (1874) Treasurer of Missouri (1862-65) Missouri State House of Representatives (1846, unseated) Slaveowners
Selected paintings:
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1844) Shooting for the Beef (1850) The Emigration of Daniel Boone (1851) The County Election (1851) Stump Speaking (1853) Verdict of the People (1855) The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port (1857) Order No. 11 (1868)
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