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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJohn Forbes BENJAMIN
(1817-1877)
BENJAMIN, John Forbes, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Cicero, Onondaga County,
N.Y., January 23, 1817; attended the public schools; moved to Texas
in 1845 and to Missouri in 1848; studied law; was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Mo., in
1848; member of the State house of representatives 1850-1852;
presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of in 1856; entered
the Union Army as a private in 1861 and was subsequently promoted
to the ranks of captain, major, lieutenant colonel, and brigadier
general; provost marshal of the Eighth District of Missouri in 1863
and 1864; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864;
elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and
Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1871); chairman,
Committee on Invalid Expenditures (Forty-first Congress); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law in
Shelbyville; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1872 to the
Forty-third Congress; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1874 and
engaged in banking; died in Washington, D.C., March 8, 1877;
interment in a private cemetery at Shelbina, Shelby County, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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