Bingham Rhodes III (1799-1838) was a Democratic politician and planter from Virginia.
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Bingham Rhodes III was born in King and Queen County, Virginia in 1799, and he came from a family of planters. Rhodes was raised on his family's "Senegalia" plantation, and he was an admirer of Thomas Jefferson from a young age. Rhodes affiliated himself with the Democratic-Republican Party during the 1810s before becoming a Democrat during the 1820s, supporting Andrew Jackson's classical liberal and white supremacist movement. Rhodes served in the State House from 1836 to 1837 before health complications forced him to stand down, and he died in 1838.