Benjamin Dean

Benjamin Dean ( born August 14, 1824 in Clitheroe, England; † April 9, 1897 in South Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. In the years 1878 and 1879, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

At the age of five years, Benjamin Dean came with his parents from the UK to the United States, where the family settled in Lowell. He attended the public schools of his new home and then completed the Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent law degree in 1845 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Lowell to work in this profession. In 1852 he moved his residence and his office to Boston. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1862, 1863 and 1869 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. In the years 1865 and 1866 and again from 1872 to 1873 he sat on the city council of Boston.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Dean lost to Walbridge A. Field of the Republican Party. He appealed against the election results a contradiction. When this was granted, he was on 28 March 1878, taking the mandate of Field and end the current parliamentary term in Congress. In 1878, he did not run. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Benjamin Dean again practiced as a lawyer in Boston. There he spent several years as a member and chairman of the parking committee. He died on 9 April 1897 in South Boston.