Aaron Harding (February 20, 1805 – December 24, 1875), Also known as Aaron Hardin, was a

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from

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and a

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. He was born near Campbellsville, in what is now Green County, where he attended rural schools. He became familiar with the classics, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1833, having commenced his practice in Greensburg, Kentucky. On October 22, 1834, he married Margaret Campbell (November 28, 1818 – February 19, 1858), the niece of Campbellsville founder Andrew Campbell. Harding was elected prosecuting attorney of Green County in 1833. He was member of the

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in 1840 and was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses and as a

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to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1867). He was a delegate to the

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in 1866. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Danville, Kentucky. He died in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1875 and was interred at Georgetown Cemetery there.

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