Dennis Pennington
Dennis Pennington was an early legislator in Indiana and the Indiana Territory, speaker of the first Indiana State Senate, speaker of the territorial legislature, a member of the Whig Party serving overyears in public office, and one of the founders of Indiana. He was also a stonemason and member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana. His major political contributions were his strong opposition of slavery and his support of squatters rights, and he was responsible for the construction of Indianas first state capitol building.
Dennis Pennington was born in Cumberland County, Virginia just before American Independence on May 18, 1776 to Edward Pennington. He had four brothers and one sister. The Pennington family owned several slaves while they lived in Virginia, but freed them all when they left the state. One of the slaves, Aunt Fannie, refused to be left behind. She stayed with Penningtons for the rest of her life as a free household servant, amp died as one of the several freed slaves living in Corydon.
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