[DOC] [TLE] Missouri enters the Union, Aug. 10, 1821 - POLITICO [PAR] Aug 9, 2016 ... On this day in 1821, Missouri entered the Union as the 24th state. ... The Senate 
then voted to bar slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase ... in settling the 
West following President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Hart Benton (politician) - Wikipedia [PAR] Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782  April 10, 1858), nicknamed "Old Bullion", 
was a U.S. Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward 
expansion of the United States. He served in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, 
becoming the first member of ... Benton was assigned to represent Jackson's 
interests to military officials in... [DOC] [TLE] Senator Thomas Hart Benton - Historic Missourians - The State ... [PAR] Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a prominent lawyer and political leader during 
the first half of the ... Benton also fought against the extension of slavery into the 
territories. .... Not until August 10, 1821, was Missouri admitted as the twenty-
fourth state. ... Benton represented Jackson's interests on the floor of the Senate. [DOC] [TLE] August 10, 1821: Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state. | History ... [PAR] Aug 10, 2016 ... See more about August 10, Missouri and US states. ... of Thomas Hart Benton, 
who represented Missouri in the United States Senate from 1821 to 1851. .... 
Missouri - joined the United States as the 24th state on August 10, 1821. .... to 
slavery by the Missouri Compromise, and slave states and territories. [DOC] [TLE] BENTON, Thomas Hart | US House of Representatives: History, Art ... [PAR] BENTON, Thomas Hart, (fatherinlaw of John C. Frmont; brotherinlaw of ... 
Eason Benton [18481924]), a Senator and a Representative from Missouri; born 
at ... the admission of Missouri as a State into the Union, was elected in 1821 as a 
... reelected in 1827, 1833, 1839, and 1845 and served from August 10, 1821,... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] ENTERED UNION: 10 August 1821 (24th). ..... first governor and Thomas Hart 
Benton was one of the state's first two US senators; Benton remained ... Black 
slaves represented only 9% of the total populationthe lowest proportion of any 
slave... [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Hart Benton | Yesterdayand Today [PAR] Sep 17, 2014 ... In other news, the paper also notes that on August 2, out in ... Senator, that in 
consequence of the base betrayal of the trust .... Did the great Democrat Thomas 
Hart Benton have an influence on Ulysses Grant? ...... The compromise that led 
to Missouri entering the Union as a slave state in 1821, in essence,... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Civil War Tourism | Yesterdayand Today [PAR] Aug 10, 2013 ... Included among the dead was Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union ... Missouri became 
the 24th State on August 10, 1821, but to maintain a balance of power in the 
Senate between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise also ..... 
Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, frustrated at the difficulty he was... [DOC] [TLE] Constitutional Convention - A New Nation Votes - Tufts University [PAR] State. Missouri6[remove] ... 10 per page ... as a slave state triggered a 
contentious national debate over the extension of slavery. ... and paved the way 
for Missouri's formal admission to the Union on August 10, 1821. ... That lesson 
was not lost on Missouri's newly elected U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton and 
his cohorts,... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri - Government and society | history - geography - state ... [PAR] Jan 21, 2016 ... 10, 1821. State motto: "Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto (The Welfare of the ... a 
native of Sumner who represented Arkansas in the U.S. Senate for three ... In the 
visual arts, George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton have .... of 1820, 
Missouri had been admitted to the union as a state in which slavery... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Missouri the center state

Question: On Aug. 10, 1821 it entered the Union as a slave state with Thomas Hart Benton representing it in the Senate
Answer: Missouri