Benjamin S. Turner

Benjamin Sterling Turner ( * March 17, 1825 near Weldon, Halifax County, North Carolina, † March 21, 1894 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama ) was an American politician ( Republican).

Career

Benjamin Sterling Turner was a slave to the world, so that was coming to him in his childhood, no education. He moved to Alabama in 1830, where he secretly received adequate training. He then went to commercial activities. Turner was elected in 1867 to the tax collector of Dallas County. Two years later he was elected to the city council of Selma.

Turner also pursued a political career. He was elected to the 42nd Congress. During his re-election attempt in the following 43 U.S. Congress, however, he suffered a defeat. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1873. Then he took in 1880 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part. He also went to Alabama in agricultural activities. He died in 1894 in Selma (Alabama ) and was buried there on the Live Oak Cemetery.

Halifax County (North Carolina) Selma (Alabama) Dallas County (Alabama) Alabama Territory John Crowell (Alabama) Gabriel Moore Reuben Chapman Edmund Strother Dargan John Gayle (Alabama) William J. Alston John Bragg (politician) Philip Phillips (lawyer) Percy Walker Francis William Kellogg Frederick George Bromberg Jeremiah Haralson James T. Jones Thomas H. Herndon Richard Henry Clarke George W. Taylor (politician) Oscar Lee Gray John McDuffie Frank W. Boykin Jo Bonner John McKee Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Samuel Wright Mardis John McKinley Joshua L. Martin David Hubbard George S. Houston James Edwin Belser Henry Washington Hilliard James Abercrombie (Congressman) Eli Sims Shorter James L. Pugh James T. Rapier Jeremiah Norman Williams Hilary A. Herbert Jesse F. Stallings Ariosto A. Wiley Oliver C. Wiley S. Hubert Dent, Jr. John R. Tyson J. Lister Hill George M. Grant William Louis Dickinson Bobby Bright Martha Roby George Washington Owen Joab Lawler James La Fayette Cottrell Sampson Willis Harris David Clopton Benjamin White Norris William Anderson Handley Charles Pelham (congressman) Taul Bradford William J. Samford William C. Oates George Paul Harrison, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry B. Steagall George W. Andrews Elizabeth B. Andrews William Flynt Nichols Glen Browder Bob Riley William Winter Payne Samuel Williams Inge William Russell Smith Sydenham Moore Charles Wilson Pierce Charles Hays Charles M. Shelley George Henry Craig Alexander C. Davidson John Van McDuffie Gaston A. Robbins William F. Aldrich Thomas S. Plowman Sydney J. Bowie Fred L. Blackmon Lamar Jeffers Kenneth A. Roberts Robert Aderholt John Murphy (Alabama) Francis Strother Lyon Benjamin Glover Shields John Benton Callis John Henry Caldwell Robert F. Ligon Thomas Williams (Alabama) James E. Cobb Willis Brewer Charles Winston Thompson William B. Bowling LaFayette L. Patterson Miles C. Allgood Joe Starnes John Hall Buchanan, Jr. Albert L. Smith, Jr. Ben Erdreich Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Thomas Haughey William Crawford Sherrod Goldsmith W. Hewitt Burwell Boykin Lewis Newton Nash Clements John Mason Martin John H. Bankhead Richmond P. Hobson William Bacon Oliver Walter Flowers Robert E. Cramer Parker Griffith Mo Brooks Franklin Welsh Bowdon Alexander White (Alabama) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Charles Christopher Sheats William H. Forney Milford W. Howard William B. Bankhead Zadoc L. Weatherford Walter W. Bankhead Carter Manasco James D. Martin Claude Harris, Jr. Earl F. Hilliard Artur Davis Terri Sewell William Willis Garth William M. Lowe Joseph Wheeler Luke Pryor William N. Richardson Christopher Columbus Harris Edward B. Almon Archibald Hill Carmichael Oscar Underwood Truman H. Aldrich George Huddleston Luther Patrick John P. Newsome Laurie C. Battle John Abercrombie (Congressman)
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