Benjamin T. Eames

Benjamin Tucker Eames ( born June 4, 1818 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, † 6 October in East Greenwich, Rhode Iceland, 1901 ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1879 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Eames visited both the public schools in Rhode Island's capital of Providence as well as in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He then worked for several years as an accountant, before he studied at Yale College until 1843. He then worked as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1845 admitted to the bar in Providence Eames began to work in his new profession. From 1845 to 1850 he was an administrative employee at the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland. Eames was a member of the newly formed Republican Party. In the years 1854 to 1857 and again from 1863 to 1864 he was a member of the Senate of Rhode Iceland. In 1857 he was a member of a commission to revise the laws of the state. In the years 1859, 1860, 1868 and 1869, he was selected in each case in the House of Representatives of the State.

In the congressional elections of 1870, Eames was the first district of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Jenckes on March 4, 1871. After he was re-elected three times, he could remain until March 3, 1879 Congress. Between 1873 and 1875 he was chairman of the committee which dealt with private land claims. In 1878, Eames gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in Congress, he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland 1879-1881. After that, he was from 1884 to 1885 again in the Senate of his State. Then he retired from politics. Benjamin Eames died in October 1901 and was buried in Providence.