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Wade, Benjamin Franklin -1878
Statesman; born near Springfield, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800; removed to Ashtabula, O., in 1821; admitted to the bar in 1827; elected prosecuting attorney in 1835; State Senator in 1837; and was United States Senator in
Benjamin Franklin Wade. 1851-69.
He was a conspicuous antislavery leader, opposed the Kansas-Nebraska bill; favored the homestead bill and the confiscation of property in slaves.
He was acting Vice-President of the United States under President Johnson; and one of the commissioners to Santo Domingo in 1871.
He died in Jefferson, O., March 2, 1878.