French, Benjamin Brown

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Benjamin Brown French
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    Elizabeth Smith Richardson (first wife - died 1861), Mary Ellen Brady French (second wife) 
    Occupation
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Clerk of the House of Representatives, Commissioner of Public Works
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Republican
    Government
    Pierce Administration (1853-57)
    Buchanan Administration (1857-61)
    Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
    Johnson Administration (1865-69)
    How to Cite This Page: "French, Benjamin Brown," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/42198.