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Jereboam Orville Beauchamp (/dʒɛrəˈboʊ.əm ˈɔrvɪl ˈbiːtʃəm/; September 6 1802 – July 7 1826) was an American lawyer who murdered the Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; the crime is known as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy. In 1821 Sharp had been accused in Bowling Green Kentucky by Anna Cooke of fathering her illegitimate child; it was stillborn. Sharp denied paternity and public opinion favored him. In 1824 Beauchamp married Cooke who was sixteen years older than he.
