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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriBenjamin Franklin LOAN
(1819-1881)
LOAN, Benjamin Franklin, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Hardinsburg, Breckinridge
County, Ky., October 4, 1819; pursued an academic course; studied
law in Kentucky; moved to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1838; was admitted to
the bar in 1840 and practiced in St. Joseph; served in the Union
Army during the Civil War; commissioned brigadier general of
Missouri State Militia in the service of the United States November
27, 1861; honorably discharged June 8, 1863; elected as an
Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress and reelected
as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March
4, 1863-March 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary
Pensions (Fortieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress; appointed by President Grant a
visitor to the United States Military Academy in 1869; resumed the
practice of law in St. Joseph, Mo.; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1876; unsuccessful candidate for election in
1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; died in St. Joseph, Mo., March
30, 1881; interment in Mount Mora Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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