23 June 1795–13 Nov. 1885
White made the Western Carolinian an organ for Jackson; Bingham went to Fayetteville, where the Fayetteville Observer had just changed ownership. From there he worked for Adams's candidacy until the end of the 1824 campaign. Throughout his career as a newspaperman, Bingham was consistently pro-Adams and a supporter of his wing of the National Republican party, advocating manufacturing and a protective tariff and opposing nullification.
Soon after the 1824 campaign ended, Bingham went to the village of Charlotte, county seat of Mecklenburg County, and established the first newspaper there, the Catawba Journal, which he published some three or four years. In May 1828 he moved it to Salisbury and continued it as the Yadkin and Catawba Journal until early 1834, when it was discontinued for lack of patronage: another Whig newspaper, the Carolina Watchman, had been established there by Hamilton Jones and had become the effective opposition to the Western Carolinian and its pro-Calhoun policies. There was not then room for three newspapers in Salisbury.
Early in his stay in North Carolina, Bingham married Jane Miller of Rowan County, daughter of George Miller and granddaughter of Matthew Brandon. They had a family of twelve children. With the establishment of Davie County and Mocksville in the 1830s, they moved to Mocksville, where Bingham engaged in merchandising and established a tavern on Main Street catering to the students of the academy there. He was chosen clerk and master of equity of Davie County and held that position for many years.
In 1869, his wife dead, his property lost in a war to which he was violently opposed, and his eyesight failing from cataracts, he moved to Statesville and made his home with his daughter, who was the wife of Judge David M. Furches, prominent Republican leader and candidate for governor in 1892. There he died and was buried in the Furches plot in Oakwood Cemetery.