Horace Binney

Horace Binney

Horace Binney

Photo credit:

Sartain, J. & Sully, T. Hor. Binney / TS; painted by T. Sully ; engraved & printed by J. Sartain 291 Race Street Philada. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, control number 2014649378

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1806-1807 Representative Federalist
Counties Philadelphia City

Biography

01/04/1780 - 08/12/1875


BINNEY, Horace, a Representative from Philadelphia City; born, January 4, 1780 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; B.A., Harvard University, 1797; honorary Doctor of Laws, Harvard University, 1827; lawyer (1800-1850); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1806-1807 term; director, First United States Bank (1808, 1831); unsuccessful campaign, common council, Philadelphia (1808); elected, common council, Philadelphia (1810-1812); unsuccessful campaign, United States Senate (1814); elected, select council, Philadelphia (1816-1819); unsuccessful campaign, director, Second Bank of the United States (1816); president, Law Academy, Philadelphia (1832); director, Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities (1833); elected, United States Congress (1833-1835); died, August 12, 1875 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Church of Saint James the Less (Episcopal) Churchyard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

 

Bibliography

Binney, Horace. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania [1799-1818]. Vol. 1-6, William P. Farrand and Co., Farrand and Nicholas, and Moses Thomas, publishers, 1809-1815.

Binney, Horace. The Alienigenae of the United States Under the Present Naturalization Laws. 2nd ed.  Philadelphia: C. Sherman, printer, 1853.

Binney, Horace. Bushrod Washington. Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1858.

Binney, Horace. The Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1859.

Binney, Horace. The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus Under the Constitution. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Sons, printers., 1862-1865.

Strong, William. An Eulogium on the Life and Character of Horace Binney. Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, printers, 1876.

Binney, Charles Chauncey. Life of Horace Binney, with Selections from His Letters. Philadelphia: Lippencott, 1903.

Carson, Hampton L. A Sketch of Horace Binney. n.p., 1907.

 

Archival Collections

Horace Binney papers, ca. 1836-1858, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Congressional Biography

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