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(March 17, 1825 — March 21, 1894) Turner was an American politician and businessman. Benjamin Turner was born in Weldon, North Carolina as a slave. He moved to Alabama in 1830 and became a mercantilist. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-Second Congress from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000414]
Member of Alabama Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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