Benjamin Franklin Buchanan

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (born October 4, 1857 in Smyth County , Virginia , † February 21, 1932 in Richmond , Virginia) was an American politician and lawyer, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1918 to 1922 .

Life

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan was born in Smyth County in 1857 to Patrick Campbell Buchanan and America Virginia Copenhaver Buchanan. He studied law at the University of Virginia and graduated in 1880. He also obtained his Legum Baccalaureus there in 1884 and has since practiced as a lawyer in Marion and Abingdon . On March 2, 1887, Buchanan married Eleanor Fairman Sheffey. The couple had four sons and three daughters.

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan also served as Principal Advisor to the US State Monetary Service from 1915 to 1921. He served various terms in the Virginia Senate for the Smyth and Washington counties , where he was a tax law expert in the Virginia General Assembly .

In 1917 Buchanan won the election of Lieutenant Governor of Virginia for the Democrats . He held this office from February 1, 1918 to February 1, 1922.

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan died at the age of 74 from complications from a heart attack on February 21, 1932 in Richmond while attending a meeting of the Virginia House of Delegates . He found his grave in the Round Hill Cemetery in Marion. The tombstone there shows, in deviation from most written sources, the date of birth 1859. In 1934 the Chamber of Deputies decreed that Highway 16 in Smyth County be renamed BF Buchanan Highway.

literature

• John T. Kneebone et al. a. (Ed.): Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: The Library of Virginia , Richmond 1998, Vol. 2, pp. 366-367).
• Marvin Eugene Winters: Benjamin Franklin Buchanan, 1859-1932. University of Virginia 1969.

Web links

• Benjamin Franklin Buchanan in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benjamin Franklin Buchanan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved November 7, 2012.