Benjamin F. Loan

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Benjamin Franklin Loan (born October 4, 1819 in Hardinsburg , Breckinridge County , Kentucky , †  March 30, 1881 in Saint Joseph , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Loan enjoyed an academic education. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession in Saint Joseph in 1840 . During the Civil War he served in the Union Army between 1861 and 1863 , where he made it to the position of Brigadier General in the Missouri State Militia, which was subordinate to this.

In the congressional elections of 1862 Loan was elected as a unionist in the seventh constituency of Missouri to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John William Noell on March 4, 1863 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1869 . From 1865 he represented the Republican Party there . During his time in Congress in 1865, the Civil War ended. After that, the work of Congress was shaped by the conflict between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson , which culminated in an impeachment trial that only narrowly failed in the US Senate . In 1865 and 1868, the 13th and 14th amendments were ratified. Between 1867 and 1869 Loan was chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions . In 1868 he was not re-elected.

In 1869 Loan was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the governing body of the US Military Academy at West Point . He also continued his legal practice as a lawyer in Saint Joseph. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati , on which Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated as a candidate for president. In the same year he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Benjamin Loan died on March 30, 1881 in Saint Joseph, where he was also buried.

Web links

  • Benjamin F. Loan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Loan, Benjamin F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loan, Benjamin Franklin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Hardinsburg , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1881
Place of death Saint Joseph , Missouri