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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioBenjamin Franklin WADE
(1800-1878)
Senate Years of Service:
1851-1855; 1855-1857; 1857-1869Party: Whig; Opposition;
RepublicanWADE, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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