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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioWADE, Benjamin Franklin
(1800—1878)
Senate Years of Service:
1851-1855; 1855-1857; 1857-1869
Party:
Whig; Opposition; Republican
WADE, Benjamin Franklin, (brother of Edward Wade), a Senator from Ohio; born in Feeding Hills, near Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., October 27, 1800; received his early education from his mother; moved with his parents to Andover, Ohio, in 1821; taught school; studied medicine in Albany, N.Y., 1823-1825; returned to Ohio; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula County 1835-1837; member, State senate 1837-1838, 1841-1842; judge of the third judicial court of Ohio 1847-1851; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1851, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; reelected as a Republican in 1856 and 1863 and served from March 15, 1851, to March 3, 1869; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1868; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses; chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful Republican candidate for the vice presidential nomination in 1868; resumed the practice of law in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1869; appointed a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad; member of the Santo Domingo Commission in 1871; died in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, on March 2, 1878; interment in Oakdale Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Shover, Kenneth. “The Life of Benjamin F. Wade.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1962; Trefousse, Hans L. Benjamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican from Ohio
. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1963.
Erlich, Martin. “Benjamin Franklin Wade: The Road to Radical Republicanism.” Master’s thesis, Wayne State University, 1954.
Land, Mary. “ ‘Bluff’ Ben Wade’s New England Background.” New England Quarterly
27 (December 1954): 484-509.
___. “Old Backbone: ‘Bluff’ Ben Wade.” Ph.D. dissertation, Western Reserve University, 1957.
Riddle, Albert Gallatin. The Life of Benjamin F. Wade
. Cleveland: W.W. Williams, 1886.
Seligman, Harvey. “Benjamin Franklin Wade: The ‘Buckeye’ Radical: 1861-1865.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1949.
Shover, Kenneth Bruce. “The Life of Benjamin F. Wade.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1962.
___. “Maverick at Bay: Ben Wade’s Senate Re-election Campaign, 1862-1863.” Civil War History
12 (March 1966): 23-42.
Trefousse, Hans L. Benjamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican from Ohio
. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1963.
___. “Ben Wade and the Failure of the Impeachment of Johnson.” Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Bulletin
18 (October 1960): 241-52.
___. “Ben Wade and the Negro.” Ohio Historical Quarterly
68 (April 1959): 161-76.
___. “The Motivation of a Radical Republican: Benjamin F. Wade.” Ohio History
73 (Spring 1964): 63-74.
Volpe, Vernon L. “Benjamin Wade’s Strange Defeat.” Ohio History
97 (Summer-Autumn 1988): 122-32.
Williams, Harry. “Benjamin F. Wade and the Atrocity Propaganda of the Civil War.” Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly
48 (January 1939): 33-43.
Zornow, William Frank. “ ‘Bluff Ben’ Wade in Lawrence, Kansas: The Issue of Class Conflict.” Ohio Historical Quarterly
65 (January 1956): 44-52.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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