Benjamin Le Fevre
Benjamin Le Fevre | |
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| File:Benjamin Le Fevre (cropped).jpg Le Fevre photographed by C. M. Bell | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Benjamin Le Fevre October 8, 1838 Maplewood, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 7, 1922 (aged 83) |
| Resting place | Glen Cemetery in Salem Township |
| Signature | File:Benjamin Le Fevre signature.png |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States of America Union |
| Branch/service | Union Army |
| Rank | Brevet Brigadier General |
| Unit | 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
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Benjamin Le Fevre (October 8, 1838 – March 7, 1922) was a nineteenth-century American politician and Civil War veteran from Ohio. He served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1879 to 1887.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born near Maplewood, Ohio, Le Fevre attended Miami University in 1858 and 1859 and studied law in Sidney, Ohio.
Civil War
[edit | edit source]At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, serving until the end of the war, being mustered out as major of the 15th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Political career
[edit | edit source]He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1865 and was nominated as a Democrat for Secretary of State of Ohio in 1866. He was United States consul in Nuremberg, Bavaria from 1867 to 1869.
Congress
[edit | edit source]Le Fevre was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1878, serving from 1879 to 1887, not being a candidate for renomination in 1886.
Later career
[edit | edit source]Afterwards, he was a mail contract agent for the Erie Railroad, had retired from political activities and engaged in agricultural pursuits in Salem Township, Shelby County, Ohio.
Death and burial
[edit | edit source]Le Fevre died in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on March 7, 1922, and was interred in Glen Cemetery in Salem Township.
See also
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- 1838 births
- 1922 deaths
- Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
- 19th-century American business executives in rail transportation
- Miami University alumni
- People of Ohio in the American Civil War
- People from Shelby County, Ohio
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
- 19th-century United States representatives
- 19th-century members of the Ohio General Assembly
- Ohio United States Representative stubs
- American Civil War biography stubs