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American senator for Ohio (1783–1857)

Benjamin Ruggles


United States Senator from Ohio
In office March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1833
Preceded by	Joseph Kerr
Succeeded by	Thomas Morris

Personal details
Born	(1783-02-21)February 21, 1783 Abington, Connecticut
Died	September 2, 1857(1857-09-02) (aged 74) St. Clairsville, Ohio
Political party	Democratic-Republican

Benjamin Ruggles (February 21, 1783 – September 2, 1857) was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate.

Biography

Born in Abington, Connecticut, Ruggles studied law and was admitted to the bar. Ruggles moved to Marietta, Ohio, to practice law in 1807, then moved to St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1810.

Career

After serving as a judge in the Ohio state courts from 1810 to 1815, Ruggles was elected to the Senate, serving three terms from 1815-1833. He did not run for re-election in 1832. Ohio Presidential elector in 1836 for Whig William Henry Harrison.

Family life

Ruggles married in Connecticut in 1812. His first wife died in St. Clairsville in 1817, and he remarried in 1825.

Death

Ruggles died on September 2, 1857, and was buried in Saint Clairsville Union Cemetery.

Notes

Taylor 1899 : 193
Caldwell (1880). History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio. p. 239.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

References

United States Congress. "Benjamin Ruggles (id: R000500)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

External links

Benjamin Ruggles entry at The Political Graveyard
Benjamin Ruggles at Find a Grave
"Ruggles, Benjamin" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... Vol. 1. State of Ohio. p. 193.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

U.S. Senate
Preceded byJoseph Kerr	U.S. senator (Class 1) from Ohio 1815–1833 Served alongside: Jeremiah Morrow, William A. Trimble, Ethan A. Brown, William H. Harrison, Jacob Burnet, Thomas Ewing	Succeeded byThomas Morris
Legal offices
Preceded byCalvin Pease	President Judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas 3rd Judicial Circuit 1810–1815	Succeeded byGeorge Tod

v t e United States senators from Ohio
Class 1	Smith Meigs Worthington Kerr Ruggles Morris Tappan Corwin Ewing Wade Thurman Sherman Hanna Dick Pomerene Fess Donahey H. Burton Huffman K. Taft Bricker Young R. Taft Jr. Metzenbaum DeWine S. Brown Moreno
Class 3	Worthington Tiffin Griswold Campbell Morrow Trimble E. Brown Harrison Burnet Ewing Allen Chase Pugh Chase Sherman Matthews Pendleton Payne Brice Foraker T. Burton Harding Willis Locher T. Burton McCulloch Bulkley R. Taft Sr. Burke Bender Lausche Saxbe Metzenbaum Glenn Voinovich Portman Vance

v t e Deans of the United States Senate
Gunn/Langdon Foster Brown Hillhouse Anderson Gaillard Ruggles King Benton Mangum Pearce Bayard/Foot Foot Wade Sumner Chandler Anthony Edmunds Morrill Allison Hale Frye Cullom Gallinger Lodge Warren Simmons Smoot Borah Smith McKellar George Hayden Russell Ellender Aiken Eastland/McClellan Eastland Magnuson Stennis Thurmond Byrd Inouye Leahy Grassley

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