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TRACY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1830– )

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TRACY, See also:BENJAMIN See also:FRANKLIN (1830– ) , See also:American lawyer and soldier, was See also:born in See also:Owego, New See also:York, on the 26th of See also:April 183o. He was educated at the Owego See also:academy, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1851, was See also:district-See also:attorney of Tioga See also:county in 18J3–18J9, and was a member of the See also:state See also:Assembly in 1862. In 1862 he organized the tooth and the 137th regiments of New York Volunteer See also:Infantry and (Aug. 28) was made See also:colonel of the former. In See also:September 1864 he became colonel of the 127th See also:United States Colored Infantry; in 1864–1865 was in command of the See also:prison See also:camp at See also:Elmira, New York, and in See also:March 1865 was breveted brigadier-See also:general of See also:volunteers. He received a Congressional See also:medal of See also:honour in 1895 for gallantry at the See also:Wilderness in May 1864. He was United States district-attorney for the eastern district of New York in 1866–1873, and an See also:associate See also:judge of the New York. See also:court of appeals in 1881–1882. In 1889–1893 he was secretary of the See also:navy in the See also:cabinet of See also:President Benjamin See also:Harrison, and then resumed the practice of See also:law in New York See also:City. He was chairman of the See also:commission which drafted the See also:charter for Greater New York, and in 1897 .was defeated as Republican See also:candidate for See also:mayor of the city. In 1899 he was counsel for See also:Venezuela before the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary See also:arbitration commission in See also:Paris.

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