Benjamin F. Grady

Benjamin F. Grady

Benjamin Franklin Grady (born October 10, 1831 in Sarecta , Duplin County , North Carolina , †  March 6, 1914 in Clinton , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Grady attended both private and public schools. He then studied until 1857 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Between 1858 and 1862 he taught at Austin College in Huntsville ( Texas ) math and science. During the Civil War he served as a sergeant in the Confederation Army . He experienced the end of the war after suffering from typhoid in a hospital in Raleigh .

After the war, he settled in Clinton. There and in La Grange he worked again as a teacher. In 1877 he returned to Duplin County, where he continued to teach as a teacher while working in agriculture. Between 1881 and 1890 Grady was a school councilor in Duplin County. From 1878 to 1889 he also served as justice of the peace there. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1890 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Charles W. McClammy on March 4, 1891 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1895 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Grady retired from politics and lived on his farm in Duplin County. He taught again as a teacher and wrote a pamphlet in 1899 in which he defended the secession in 1861 for constitutional reasons. Benjamin Grady died in Clinton on March 6, 1914.

Web links

• Benjamin F. Grady in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benjamin F. Grady in the database of Find a Grave (English)