BENJAMIN

See also:

• FRANKLIN
• FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790)
• FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN (1786-1847)
• FRANKLIN, WILLIAM BUEL (1823-1903)

FRANKLIN

See also:

• TRACY, ANTOINE LOUIS CLAUDE DESTUTT, COMTE
• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TRACY (1830– )

TRACY (1830– )  , American lawyer and soldier, was born in Owego, New York, on the 26th of April 183o . He was educated at the Owego academy, was admitted to the bar in 1851, was district-attorney of Tioga county in 18J3–18J9, and was a member of the state Assembly in 1862 . In 1862 he organized the tooth and the 137th regiments of New York Volunteer Infantry and (Aug . 28) was made colonel of the former . In September 1864 he became colonel of the 127th United States Colored Infantry; in 1864–1865 was in command of the prison camp at Elmira, New York, and in March 1865 was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers . He received a Congressional medal of honour in 1895 for gallantry at the Wilderness in May 1864 . He was United States district-attorney for the eastern district of New York in 1866–1873, and an associate judge of the New York. court of appeals in 1881–1882 . In 1889–1893 he was secretary of the navy in the cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison, and then resumed the practice of law in New York City . He was chairman of the commission which drafted the charter for Greater New York, and in 1897 .was defeated as Republican candidate for mayor of the city . In 1899 he was counsel for Venezuela before the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary arbitration commission in Paris .