Benjamin Ruggles

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Benjamin Ruggles

|image = BRuggles.jpg

|jr/sr = United States Senator

|state = Ohio

|term_start = March 4, 1815

|term_end = March 3, 1833

|predecessor = Joseph Kerr

|successor = Thomas Morris

|birth_date = {{birth date|1783|2|21}}

|birth_place = Abington, Connecticut

|death_date = {{death date and age|1857|9|2|1783|2|21}}

|death_place = St. Clairsville, Ohio

|party = Democratic-Republican

}}

Benjamin Ruggles (February 21, 1783{{spaced ndash}}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.Taylor 1899 : 193

Family life

Ruggles married in Connecticut in 1812. His first wife died in St. Clairsville in 1817, and he remarried in 1825.{{cite book |title=History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio| last=Caldwell |year=1880 |page=239 |url=http://debmurray.tripod.com/ohio/belbioref-6.htm#ruggles}}

Death

Ruggles died on September 2, 1857, and was buried in Saint Clairsville Union Cemetery.[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000500 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]

Notes

References

External links

[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruggles.html#604.92.68 Benjamin Ruggles entry] at The Political Graveyard
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{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Ruggles, Benjamin|year=1900 |short=x}}
{{cite book |title=Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... |first1=William Alexander |last1=Taylor |first2=Aubrey Clarence |last2=Taylor |year=1899 |publisher=State of Ohio |volume=1 |ref=taylor1899|page=193

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193}}

{{U.S. Senator box

| state=Ohio

| class=1

| before=Joseph Kerr

| after=Thomas Morris

| alongside=Jeremiah Morrow, William A. Trimble, Ethan A. Brown, William H. Harrison, Jacob Burnet, Thomas Ewing

| years=1815–1833}}

{{s-ttl | title=President Judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas
3rd Judicial Circuit | years=1810–1815}}

Category:1783 births

Category:1857 deaths

Category:People from Pomfret, Connecticut