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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Benjamin F. Grady |
| Address | Sampson County
Clinton, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
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October 10, 1831
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| Died | March 06, 1914
(82 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | GRADY, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Sarecta, Duplin County, N.C., October 10, 1831; attended private and public schools and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1857; professor of mathematics and natural sciences in Austin College, Huntsville, Tex., 1858-1862; enlisted during the Civil War in Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Texas Cavalry; promoted to orderly sergeant in Granbury’s brigade, Cleburne’s division; became ill with typhoid fever and remained in Peace Institute Hospital at Raleigh until the end of the war; settled in Clinton, N.C., at the close of the war and engaged in teaching in Clinton and La Grange, N.C.; in 1877 returned to Duplin County, where he continued to teach and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; superintendent of public instruction for Duplin County, 1881-1890; justice of the peace 1878-1889
U.S. Representative (D-NC) 1891-1895
Retired to a farm near Turkey, Sampson County, N.C., where he again taught school for several years; returned to Clinton, N.C., and died there March 6, 1914; interment in Clinton Cemetery.
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