Benjamin Franklin Buchanan

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan ( born October 4, 1857 Smyth County, Virginia; † February 21, 1932 in Richmond, Virginia ) was an American politician and jurist, who served from 1918 to 1922 as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

Life

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan was born in 1857 in Smyth County, the son of Patrick Campbell Buchanan and America Virginia Copenhaver Buchanan. At the University of Virginia, he studied law and graduated in 1880. Moreover, he obtained his Legum Baccalaureus there in 1884 and since then practiced as a lawyer in Marion and Abingdon. On March 2, 1887 married Eleanor Buchanan Fairman Sheffey. The couple had four sons and three daughters.

In addition, Benjamin Franklin Buchanan worked as a principal advisor to the state U.S. currency Authority 1915 until 1921. As a parliamentarian, he served several terms of office in the Senate of Virginia for the Smyth and Washington counties, where he was the General Assembly one of the experts in the tax law in Virginia.

1917 Buchanan won the election for the Democrats for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. This office he held from February 1, 1818 to February 1, 1922.

Benjamin Franklin Buchanan died at the age of 74 years from the effects of a heart attack on 21 February 1932 in Richmond, when he participated in a meeting of the Virginia House of Delegates. His tomb he found on the Round Hill Cemetery in Marion. The local grave stone is in derogation of the most written sources, the date of birth 1859. 1934 decreed the Chamber of Deputies that the Highway 16 in Smyth County in BF Buchanan Highway will be renamed.