Ben C. Eastman

Ben C. Eastman ( born October 24, 1812 in Strong, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † February 2nd 1856 in Platteville, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ben Eastman was born 1812 in Strong, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts, and is since 1820 part of the State of Maine. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1840 admitted to the bar he began in Green Bay to work in his new profession. In the same year he moved his office and his residence to Platteville in Wisconsin Territory. Between 1843 and 1846 he was a member of the Territorial Government. In addition, he was district attorney in Grant County.

Politically, Eastman was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1850 he was in the second electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Orsamus Cole on March 4, 1851. After a re-election in 1852 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. These were determined by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War. It was at that time especially around the issue of slavery.

1854 renounced Eastman on another Congress candidate. In the months after his resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. He died on February 2, 1856, almost eleven months after the end of his last term in Congress. Ben Eastman was buried in Madison.