Benjamin Ruggles

Benjamin Ruggles
Benjamin Ruggles
United States Senator; from Ohio
	In office; March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1833
Preceded by	Joseph Kerr
Succeeded by	Thomas Morris
Personal details
Born	February 21, 1783; Abington, Connecticut
Died	September 2, 1857 (aged 74); St. Clairsville, Ohio
Political party	Democratic-Republican

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.^[1]

Family life

Ruggles married in Connecticut in 1812. His first wife died in St. Clairsville in 1817, and he remarried in 1825.^[2]

Death

Ruggles died on September 2, 1857, and was buried in Saint Clairsville Union Cemetery.^[3]

Notes

^ Taylor 1899 : 193
^ Caldwell (1880). History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio. p. 239.
^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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

U.S. Senate
Preceded by Joseph Kerr	U.S. senator (Class 1) from Ohio 1815–1833 Served alongside: Jeremiah Morrow, William A. Trimble, Ethan A. Brown, William H. Harrison, Jacob Burnet, Thomas Ewing	Succeeded by Thomas Morris
Legal offices
Preceded by Calvin Pease	President Judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas 3rd Judicial Circuit 1810–1815	Succeeded by George Tod