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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, 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.




Family life


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




Death


Ruggles died on September 2, 1857, and was buried in Saint Clairsville Union Cemetery.




Notes






References


United States Congress. "Benjamin Ruggles (id: R000500)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.




External links


Benjamin Ruggles entry at The Political Graveyard
Benjamin Ruggles at Find a Grave
"Ruggles, Benjamin" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... Vol. 1. State of Ohio. p. 193.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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