Benjamin H. Clover

Benjamin Hutchinson Clover (* December 22 1837 in Jefferson, Ohio, † December 30, 1899 in Douglas, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Clover attended the public schools of his home. In 1871, he moved to Cambridge in Kansas. There he was engaged in farming. Between 1873 and 1888 he was a member of the local school board. Clover joined the Farmers' Alliance and later emerged from her populist party on. He was twice president of the Farmers' Alliance in Kansas. At the federal level, he was also twice as Vice President.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Clover was in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1891, the successor of Bishop W. Perkins. Since he resigned in 1892 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893. After the end of his time in Congress to re Clover devoted his agricultural interests. He died on December 30, 1899 in Douglas, and was also buried there.