Benjamin F. Jonas

Benjamin F. Jonas

Benjamin Franklin Jonas (born July 19, 1834 in Williamsport , Grant County , Kentucky , † December 21, 1911 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1885 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US Senate .

Career

Benjamin Jonas attended public schools in Adams County , Illinois, where he had moved with his parents. In 1853 he moved to New Orleans. After studying law at the later Tulane University and his admission as a lawyer in 1855, he began to work in New Orleans in his new profession. In contrast to his father in Illinois, who was and remained a Republican and also supported the Unions during the American Civil War , Benjamin Jonas became a member of the Democratic Party and a supporter of southern politics. In 1862 he joined the Confederation Army and remained in it until the end of the Civil War in 1865. He achieved the rank of major.

Between 1965 and 1868 and again in 1876 and 1877 he sat in the State House of Representatives . In 1872 he was also elected to the Louisiana Senate. However, he then renounced this mandate. Between 1875 and 1879 he was the legal representative of the city of New Orleans (city attorney). In the elections of 1878 Benjamin Jonas was elected as his party's candidate to the US Senate, where he succeeded James B. Eustis as Class 3 Senator on March 4, 1879 . There he was temporarily chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. After he was not re-elected in 1884, he left Congress on March 4, 1885.

After the end of his political career, Jonas practiced again as a lawyer in New Orleans. He died there on December 21, 1911.

Web links

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