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| name = Benjamin L. C. Wailes

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| birth_place = Georgia

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Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes (August 1, 1797{{snd}}November 16, 1862) was a surveyor, government land agent, Indian agent, state legislator, college professor, university administrator, historian, geologist, naturalist/collector, and land and slave owner of Mississippi, United States. Wailes organized the Mississippi Historical Society in the 1850s, making important acquisitions for a state history collection; the organization lapsed after his death and then was reestablished as the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Born in Georgia to a family of Marylanders, he moved with his parents in 1807 to Washington, the capital of Mississippi Territory.{{Cite news |last=n.a. |first= |date=1978-08-01 |title=Renaissance Man |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger-benjamin-lc-wailes-bio-19/28517586/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |work=Clarion-Ledger |pages=14}} He was educated at Jefferson College and then spent most of the rest of his life as a member of the college's board of directors. He married a distant cousin, Rebecca Covington, whose father was U.S. Army General Leonard Covington.