HANNEGAN, Edward - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Mr. Hannegan has abandoned the idea of moving South.  He has effected an exchange and will in a few days remove to the beautiful residence of Mr. A. Henderson in Covington.  He proposes for himself no higher enjoyment, asks no other privilege than that of spending the remnant of a lifetime in quiet in Fountain, surrounded by a people to whom he is devotedly attached and deeply indebted for oft repeated and unmistakable evidences of confidence and esteem.  A nomination to the Covention to amend the constitution of Indiana would have been tendered him by acclamation but he would not hear of it.  His health is feeble and in the quiet of private life he seeks to renew it and repose.  

Source: Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1880 Vol. III p

Note: this is likely Edward A. Hannegan senator b in Ohio died in St. Louis, Mo 25 Feb 1859.  He was educated in Kentucky where he spent his boyhood and afterward began to practice law in Covington, Ind. He was frequently a member of the legislature in 1833-7 and was a representative in congress having been elected as a Democrat.  He was US Senator from Indiana in 1843-9 and from 22 March 1849 till 13 Jan 1850 was minister to Prussia. Mr. Hannegan was eloquent and brilliant but erratic.  In 1852, while under the influence of liquor, he killed his brother-in-law, Capt. Duncan. He afterward removed to St. Louis, Mo where he spent the remainder of his life. – kbz

Note: He married Margaret Duncan in Knox Co IN 4 April 1828 by Samuel R. Alexander

According to findagrave memorial he was the son of Edward B. and Margaret Chambers Hannegan and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.  

Name Edward Allen Hannegan

Birth Date 25 Jun 1807

Residence Place Indiana, USA

Elected Office(s) Senator, Representative

Biography a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born in Hamilton County, Ohio, June 25, 1807; moved with his parents to Bourbon County, Ky., the same year; attended the public schools; studied law, taught school and worked as a farm hand; admitted to the bar in 1827; moved to Indiana and settled in Covington, where he commenced the practice of law; member, State house of representatives 1832-1833, 1841-1842; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); was not a candidate for renomination in 1836; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1842 and served from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1848; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Thirtieth Congress); United States Minister to Prussia 1849-1850; resumed the practice of law in Covington; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1857, where he continued to practice law until his death by overdose of morphine on February 25, 1859; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind.

Source: Dictionary of American Biography.