Benjamin F. Deming

Deming was born in 1790[https://books.google.com/books?id=NA4ZAQAAMAAJ&q=benjamin+franklin+deming+august+1790+july+1834 The Descendants of Josiah Churchill (c. 1615–1686) and Elizabeth Foote (1616–1700)] in Danville in the Vermont Republic; he pursued academic studies and became a merchant.

He was the clerk of the Caledonia County Court from 1817 until 1833.{{cite book|last=Hemenway|first=Abby Maria|title=The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military, Volume 1|year=1867|publisher=The Vermont Historical Gazettee|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lNQbAQAAMAAJ/page/n307 320]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lNQbAQAAMAAJ }} From 1822 until 1833, he was the probate judge in Vermont,{{cite book|last=Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders|title=Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vt. 1764–1887|year=1887|publisher=Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders|pages=37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA37 }} and he served as a member of the Governor's council from 1827 until 1832.

Deming was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third Congress, and served from March 4, 1833 until his death on July 11, 1834.{{cite web|url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/benjamin_deming/403365|title=Rep. Benjamin Deming|publisher= Govtrack.us|access-date= November 26, 2012}}{{cite web|url= http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html|title=Deming, Benjamin F. (1790–1834)|publisher= The Political Graveyard|access-date= November 26, 2012}}

He married Eunice Clark on June 6, 1816. They had five children together.

In the summer of 1834, Deming became ill while in Washington, DC and decided to return home. He died in Saratoga Springs, New York en route to his home in Danville. He is interred at the Danville Green Cemetery.[https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/12113?current_search_qs=%3FPreviousSearch%3DSearch%252cLastName%252c%252c%252c%252c%252cFalse%252cFalse%252cFalse%252c%252cLastName%26CurrentPage%3D224%26SortOrder%3DLastName%26ResultType%3DList%26Command%3D227 United States House of Representatives]

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

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==External links==

• [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000226 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
• {{Find a Grave|22633835}} – cenotaph at the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
• {{Find a Grave|6863757}} – grave at the Danville Green Cemetery, Vermont
• [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/benjamin_deming/403365 Govtrack.us]
• [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/demaggio-demps.html The Political Graveyard]

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