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B. Frank Whittemore

United States Fifteenth Amendment

"May 18, 1824 -- January 25, 1894). Benjamin Franklin Whittemore was a(n) merchant, minister in a church, soldier, public servant, president of a board, publisher, and American politician. He was born in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and moved to South Carolina. He studied theology and became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church of New England Conference (1859). Benjamin served as chaplain of the 53rd Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers and the 30th Regiment of Veteran Volunteers. He was a delegate to the South Carolina state constitutional convention (1867), president of the Republican South Carolina state executive board (1867), founded the New Era in Darlington, member of the South Carolina senate (1868 and 1877), and delegate to the Republican National Convention (1868). Wittemore was elected as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congress (July 18, 1868 - his resignation February 24, 1870). He was censured by the U.S. House of Representatives (February 24, 1870) for selling an appointment of the United States Naval Academy. Benjamin presented credentials for a special election to the 41st Congress (June 18, 1870) but the House declined. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=W000427]"

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