Benjamin M. Boyer
Boyer, Benjamin M. He was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1823; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1841; studied law and adopted that profession; was District Attorney for his native county from 1848 to 1850; and was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions, the Militia, the War Debts of Loyal States, and the New Orleans Riots. Re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the Committee on Military Affairs. Was a Delegate to the New York Convention of 1868.
Lanman, Charles. Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources. Washington: James Anglim, Publisher, 1876, p. 44.
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