Bingaman studied law in Massachusetts, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University Class of 1812.

[3] While at Harvard, by arrangement, Adam lived in Boston with the sister of Winthrop Sargent (former Governor of the Mississippi Territory).

Not wanting to part with her daughter and granddaughter, Judith Sargent Murray also relocated to Natchez -- just when her young cousin Henrietta Sargent, Lydia Maria Child, and other Boston abolitionists were starting to incorporate Judith's political essays into their own arguments for equality.

Murray, her daughter, and granddaughter went to live at Fatherland, the Bingaman family plantation in Natchez, Mississippi.

[6] As a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1833, Bingaman headed a select committee during the Nullification Crisis that preceded the American Civil War.