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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TRACY (1830– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 127 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TRACY (1830– )  ,
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American lawyer and soldier, was born in
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Owego, New York, on the 26th of
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April 183o . He was educated at the Owego academy, was admitted to the bar in 1851, was
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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
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Infantry and (Aug . 28) was made colonel of the former . In September 1864 he became colonel of the 127th
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United States Colored Infantry; in 1864–1865 was in command of the prison camp at
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Elmira, New York, and in March 1865 was breveted brigadier-general of
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volunteers . He received a Congressional medal of honour in 1895 for gallantry at the
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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
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navy in the
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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
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candidate for mayor of the city . In 1899 he was counsel for
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Venezuela before the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary arbitration commission in Paris .

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