Benjamin F. Head

Benjamin F. Leiter (1859)

Benjamin Franklin Head (born October 13, 1813 in Leitersburg , Washington County , Maryland , †  June 17, 1866 in Canton , Ohio ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Leiter received only a limited education. Between 1830 and 1834 he was a teacher in Maryland. He then practiced this profession from 1834 to 1842 in Ohio. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1842, he began to work in this profession in Canton. There he also served as justice of the peace. Between 1852 and 1855 he was two times mayor of Canton. In the years 1848 and 1849 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Ohio , whose speaker he was in 1849 as the successor to John G. Breslin . Politically, he was initially a member of the short-lived opposition party . From 1857 he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1854 , Head was elected as a candidate for the opposition party in the 18th  electoral district of Ohio to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat George Bliss on March 4, 1855 . After re-election as Republican, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Benjamin Leiter was no longer politically active. He died on June 17, 1866 in Canton, where he was also buried. He had seven children with his wife Catherine.

Web links

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

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