Benjamin Ruggles

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, Windham County, 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.[1]

Family life

Ruggles married in Connecticut in 1812. His first wife died in St. Clairsville in 1817, and he remarried in 1825.[2]

Death

Ruggles died on September 2, 1857 and was buried in Saint Clairsville Union Cemetery, Saint Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio USA.[3]

Notes

  1. Taylor 1899 : 193
  2. Caldwell (1880). History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio. p. 239.
  3. "Benjamin Ruggles". Find A Grave. Retrieved 23 August 2012.

References

External links

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.

United States Senate
Preceded by
Joseph 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 by
Thomas Morris
Legal offices
Preceded by
Calvin Pease
President Judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas
3rd Judicial Circuit

1810–1815
Succeeded by
George Tod
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