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Tracy, Benjamin Franklin 1830-

Lawyer; born in Oswego, N. Y., April 26, 1830; became an influential Republican politician, and a prominent lawyer in New York raised two [99] regiments, for the Civil War; commissioned colonel, of the 109th New York Volunteers; was severely wounded at the battle of the Wilderness; brevetted brigadier-general in 1865; received a congressional medal of honor for gallantry in battle. After the war he served as United States district attorney and associate judge of the court of appeals; and was Secretary of the Navy in President Harrison's cabinet, 1889-93. At the close of his term he returned to the practice of law; was president of the commission which drafted the charter for the Greater New York; and was an unsuccessful candidate for first mayor under this charter.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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