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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioBenjamin TAPPAN
(1773-1857)
Senate Years of Service:
1839-1845Party: DemocratTAPPAN, Benjamin, a
Senator from Ohio; born in Northampton, Mass., May 25, 1773;
attended the public schools; apprenticed as printer and engraver;
traveled to the West Indies; studied painting with Gilbert Stuart;
studied law; admitted to the bar in Hartford, Conn., and commenced
practice in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1799; member, State senate 1803-1805;
moved to Steubenville, Ohio, in 1809 and continued the practice of
law; served in the War of 1812; held several local offices; county
judge; judge of the fifth Ohio Circuit Court of Common Pleas
1816-1823; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1832;
United States district judge of Ohio 1833; elected as a Democrat to
the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1839, to March 3,
1845; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent
Expenses (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses), Committee
on the Library (Twenty-seventh Congress); censured by the Senate in
1844 for breech of confidence for passing copies of a proposed
treaty with Texas to the press; died in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, April 20, 1857; interment in Union Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Feller, Daniel. “Benjamin Tappan: The Making
of a Democrat.” In The Pursuit of Public Power: Political
Culture in Ohio, 1787-1861, edited by Jeffrey P. Brown, and
Andrew R.L. Cayton, pp. 69-82. Kent, OH: Kent State University
Press, 1994; Ratcliffe, Donald J., ed. “The Autobiography of
Benjamin Tappan.” Ohio History 85 (Spring 1976):
109-57.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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