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Benjamin Franklin Harding

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Born: January 4, 1823

Birthplace: Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania

Father: Elisha Harding 1790 – 1874
(Buried: Old Brick Church Cemetery, Easton Township, Pennsylvania)​

Mother: Amy Jenkins 1795 – 1831
(Buried: Old Brick Church Cemetery, Easton Township, Pennsylvania)​

1st​ Wife: Eliza Cox 1829 – 1867
(Buried: Cox Cemetery, Jefferson, Oregon)​

2nd​ Wife: Sally M. Bush 1831 – 1873
(Buried: Fairfield Cemetery, Gervais, Oregon)​

Children:

Frances M. “Fanny” Harding 1852 – 1872​
(Buried: Fairfield Cemetery, Gervais, Oregon)​
Malcolm J. Harding 1855 – 1871​
(Buried: Fairfield Cemetery, Gervais, Oregon)​
Ella Harding 1858 – 1882​
(Buried: Fairfield Cemetery, Gervais, Oregon)​
Elizabeth Harding 1862 – 1867​
(Buried: Cox Cemetery, Jefferson, Oregon)​

Political Party: Democratic Party

Occupation before War:


1847 – 1849: Attorney in Joliet, Illinois​
1849 – 1850: Attorney in California​
1850 – 1861: Attorney in Oregon​
1850 – 1851: Member of Oregon Territory Legislature​
1852: Speaker of Oregon Territory Legislature​
1853: United States District Attorney for Oregon Territory​
1854 – 1859: Secretary of Oregon Territory​
1858 – 1862: Oregon State Representative​
1860 – 1861: Speaker of Oregon State House of Representatives​

Civil War Career:

1858 – 1862: Oregon State Representative​
Elected as U.S. Senator to fill unexpired term of U.S. Senator, Baker​
1862 – 1865: United States Senator from Oregon​
1862 – 1865: Missed 497 of 844 roll call votes in U.S. Senate​
1862 – 1865: Member of Senate Committee Audit Expenses​
1862 – 1865: Member of Senate Committee on Public Lands​
1865: Didn’t sign the 13th​ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution​

Occupation after War:

Farmer at Salem, Oregon, and Cottage Grove, Oregon​

Died: June 16, 1899

Place of Death: Cottage Grove, Oregon

Age at time of Death: 76 years old

Burial Place: Fir Grove Cemetery Cottage Grove Oregon
 
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He not only took over for Edward Baker in the Senate on Dec. 1 but took Joseph A.Wright's seat on the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Wright was made commissioner to the Hamburg Expedition of 1863.
 
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