Individual Details

Served as a major in the rifle regiment of Col. John Allen in War of 1812. Secretary of state of KY under Gov Isaac Shelby 1812-16 and served one session in the U. S. Senate.
Martin D. Hardin signed one of the Land Grants of William Haden in Logan Co KY.

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Gov. Isaac Shelby nominated Hardin to serve as Secretary of State at the beginning of his second gubernatorial term. Shelby withdrew the nomination December 15, 1812, before Hardin's Senate confirmation. Christopher Greenup was commissioned Secretary of State and served one month. Hardin was then commissioned as Secretary of State March 13, 1813, to serve until the end of Shelby's term.
Martin D. Hardin was born on June 21, 1780, in Pennsylvania. His parents were John and Jane (Davies) Hardin. The family moved to Nelson County in April 1786. Martin Hardin was educated at Transylvania University. He studied law with George Nicholas and was admitted to the bar in 1801. He practiced law in Richmond.
Hardin represented Madison County in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1805 to 1807. He was reelected to the House in 1812 to represent Franklin County, but Governor Isaac Shelby appointed him Secretary of State in that year. According to Gov. Isaac Shelby's Executive Journal, Hardin resigned as Secretary of State on or before February 3, 1813, when former Governor Christopher Greenup, Hardin's Assistant Secretary of State, was nominated to serve as Secretary of State. Greenup was commissioned as Secretary on February 4, 1813; he resigned on March 11, 1813. Martin Hardin was (again) commissioned Secretary of State in Shelby's Administration on March 13, 1813.
Hardin fought in the War of 1812. In 1816, he was appointed to the U. S. Senate by Governor Gabriel Slaughter to fill the unexpired term of William T. Berry who had resigned. He was in the Senate until March 1817. He was reelected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1818 and served one term. In December 1820 he was unsuccessful in his bid to become president of the Bank of Kentucky.
Hardin married Elizabeth Logan on January 20, 1809. He died on October 8, 1823, in Frankfort. He is buried in the Frankfort Cemetery.
References:
"Biographical Encyclopedia" (1878), pgs. 658-59;
"Kentucky Encyclopedia", pgs. 403-4;
Levin, ed., "Lawyers and Lawmakers" (1897), pgs. 117-19.

From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia:
VIRGINIA HERALD (Fredericksburg, Va.) Died- Near Frankfort, Ky. on October 8, in the 42d year of his age, General Martin D. Hardin. (p. 3, c. 3) Saturday, November 1, 1823. RICHMOND ENQUIRER (Richmond, Va. : 1815 : Semiweekly) Died- Gen. Martin Davis Hardin, at his residence in Franklin County, Ky., on Wednesday, October 8, in his 42d year. He had served in the legislature and as Secretary of State of Kentucky. (p. 3, c. 6) Tuesday, October 28, 1823.

Birth	21 Jun 1780	Pennsylvania
Marriage	20 Jan 1809	Franklin County, Kentucky - Elizabeth Logan
Military	1812	Col. John Allen's Regt, KY, War of 1812
Death	8 Oct 1823	Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
Burial		Franfort Cemetery, Franklin County, Kentucky

Spouse	Elizabeth Logan (1786 - 1853)
Child	Col. John J. Hardin (1810 - 1847)
Child	Lucy Jane Hardin (1815 - )
Child	Martinette Hardin ( - )
Child	Charles Hardin (1818 - 1863)

Father	Col. John Hardin (1753 - 1792)
Mother	Jane Davis ( - 1829)
Sibling	Sarah Hardin (1774 - 1833)
Sibling	Mark Hardin (1782 - 1875)
Sibling	Davis Hardin (1784 - )
Sibling	Mary "Polly" Hardin (1786 - )
Sibling	Lydia Ann Hardin (1788 - 1790)
Sibling	Rosannah Hardin (1791 - 1863)