Benjamin F. Deming

Benjamin Franklin Deming ( born August 12, 1790 in Danville, Vermont, † July 11, 1834 in Saratoga Springs, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1834 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

About Benjamin Deming's youth is not much known. He was born in 1790 and received an academic education. He was then engaged in trade. Between 1827 and 1832 he was a member of the senior staff of the Governor of Vermont. Since 1817 he was Clerk ( Clerk ) in Caledonia County. This office he held until 1833. From 1821 to 1833 he was also a judge in a probate court.

Politically, he joined the short-lived Anti- Masonic Party on. In the congressional elections of 1832 Deming was as their candidate in the fifth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1833, the successor of William Cahoon, whom he had defeated in the elections. Deming was his term in Congress, which would have run until March 3, 1835 do not quit. He died on July 11, 1834 on his way home to Vermont in Saratoga Springs (New York) and was then buried in his hometown of Danville. After a by-election from his position in Congress went to Henry Fisk Janes.