Benjamin Le Fevre

Benjamin Le Fevre
Personal details
Born	(1838-10-08)October 8, 1838 Maplewood, Ohio
Died	March 7, 1922(1922-03-07) (aged 83) Atlantic City, New Jersey
Resting place	Glen Cemetery in Salem Township
Signature
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

Benjamin Le Fevre (October 8, 1838 – March 7, 1922) was a nineteenth-century American politician from Ohio.

Biography

Born near Maplewood, Ohio, Le Fevre attended Miami University in 1858 and 1859 and studied law in Sidney, Ohio. 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. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1865, was nominated a Democrat for Secretary of State of Ohio in 1866 and was United States consul in Nuremberg, Bavaria from 1867 to 1869. 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. 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.

Le Fevre died in Atlantic City, New Jersey on March 7, 1922 and was interned in Glen Cemetery in Salem Township.

External links

• United States Congress. "Benjamin Le Fevre (id: L000159)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-08-12
• "Benjamin Le Fevre". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 12, 2008.
•  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Media related to Benjamin Le Fevre at Wikimedia Commons