page_title: Horace Binney
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Horace Binney / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Horace Binney by Gilbert Stuart, 1800. National Gallery of Art: The Collection: Horace Binney oil on wood overall: 73.5 x 60.5 cm (28 15/16 x 23 13/16 in.) framed: 104.1 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm (41 x 36 x 4 1/2 in.)
context_page_description: Horace Binney was an American lawyer, author, and public speaker who served as an Anti-Jacksonian in the United States House of Representatives.
context_section_description: Binney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Dr. Barnabas Binney (1751–1787), a prominent Philadelphia physician who cared for Deborah Sampson.  He graduated from Harvard College in 1797, where he founded the Hasty Pudding Club in 1795. 	
  Through his sister Susan Binney Wallace, he was the uncle of Horace Binney Wallace (1817–1852), a legal critic and through his sister, Mary Sarah Binney Sargent (d. 1824), wife of Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786–1867), an author and temperance advocate, he was the uncle of well-known author and Horace Binney Sargent (1821–1908), a Civil war veteran.
caption: Portrait of Binney at age 20, by Gilbert Stuart
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