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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American lawyer; born in Oswego, N.
Y., April 26, 1830; 1830; was admitted to the bar in 1851; served as district attorney 185 of Tioga co. in 1853-1854; and was a member of the New York Legislature in 1861-1862. He raised the 109th and 137th Regiments of New York volunteers in July and August, 1862; took a distinguished part in the operations at the front in 1862-1865, and in the latter year was promoted Brigadier-General of volunteers for gallantry in battle. He was United States district attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1866- 1873; judge of the Court of Appeals in 1881-1882; Secretary of the Navy in the cabinet of President Harrison in 1889- 1893; president of the commission which drafted the charter for Greater New York in 1895-1896; and unsuccessful candidate for mayor under the new charter in 1897. He died in 1915.
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