Ebenezer J. Penniman

Ebenezer Jenckes Penniman ( born January 11, 1804 in Lansingburgh, Rensselaer County, New York, † April 12, 1890 in Plymouth, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ebenezer Penniman attended the common schools and then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. In 1822, he first moved to New York City and later to Orwell in Vermont, where he acted with haberdashery. In 1840, he came to a renewed move to Plymouth in Michigan and worked there as well in the dry goods trade.

Politically, Penniman was a member of the Whig party. In the meantime he was mayor (Supervisor) of Plymouth Township. In the congressional elections of 1850 he was the first electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Alexander W. Buel took on 4 March 1851 that he had beaten in the election. Since he resigned in 1852 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. This was determined by the discussions on slavery prior to the Civil War.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Penniman remained active until 1871 in the trade. Then he went into the banking industry and was president of the First National Bank of Plymouth. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he was a founding member in 1854 of the Republican Party in the year. In 1856 he was a delegate to the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated on the John C. Frémont as a presidential candidate. Ebenezer Penniman died on 12 April 1890 in Plymouth. He was married twice and had a daughter.