Benjamin Pringle

Benjamin Pringle ( born November 9, 1807 in Richfield Springs, Otsego County, New York, † June 7, 1887 in Hastings, Minnesota ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1857 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Pringle attended preparatory schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1830 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession for several years. Later he became president of a bank in Batavia. Between 1841 and 1846 he served as a district judge in Genesee County. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Pringle was in the 30th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Reuben Robie on March 4, 1853. After a re-election as a candidate of the short-lived opposition party he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1857 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Since 1855 Pringle headed the Indian Committee.

In 1856 he was no longer confirmed in his mandate. For this he was elected in 1863 in the New York State Assembly. In the same year he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln under a 1862 agreement concluded with the United Kingdom to the judge at the Court of Arbitration in Cape Town in South Africa today. It was about issues of suppression of the slave trade. 1873 Pringle curator of the State Institution for the Blind. He died on 7 June 1887 in Hastings ( Minnesota) and was buried in Batavia.