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(1783-02-21) Abington, Connecticut
Died	September 2, 1857(1857-09-02) (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.

Born in Abington, Windham County, Connecticut, he studied law and was admitted to the bar. Ruggles moved to Marietta, Ohio to practice law in 1807. He moved to St. Clairsville, Ohio in 1810. He married in Connecticut in 1812. His first wife died in St. Clairsville in 1817, and he re-married in 1825. 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.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• Benjamin Ruggles at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

• Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 .... 1. State of Ohio. p. 193. http://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193. 

External links

• Benjamin Ruggles entry at The Political Graveyard
• Benjamin Ruggles at Find a Grave

United States Senate
Preceded by Joseph Kerr	United States 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