# Benjamin Enos

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{{Short description|American politician (1788–1868)}}

'''Benjamin Enos''' (February 13, 1788 in [Richmond](/source/Richmond%2C_Rhode_Island), [Washington County, Rhode Island](/source/Washington_County%2C_Rhode_Island) – February 4, 1868 in [DeRuyter](/source/DeRuyter_(town)%2C_New_York), [Madison County, New York](/source/Madison_County%2C_New_York)) was an American politician.

==Life==
He was the son of Joseph Enos and Thankful Enos. On April 5, 1810, he married Sarah Doty (1788–1884) at [Canaan, New York](/source/Canaan%2C_New_York). In 1814, they settled in DeRuyter, NY.

He was a member from [Madison County](/source/Madison_County%2C_New_York) of the [New York State Assembly](/source/New_York_State_Assembly) in 1834, 1839 and 1840. He was Supervisor of the Town of DeRuyter in 1837. In 1842, he was elected by the [New York State Legislature](/source/New_York_State_Legislature) a [canal commissioner](/source/Erie_Canal_Commission). As a member of the [Hunker](/source/Barnburners_and_Hunkers) faction of the [Democratic Party](/source/United_States_Democratic_Party), he was [New York State Treasurer](/source/New_York_State_Treasurer) from 1845 to 1846.

==Sources==
*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html Political Graveyard]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080625194932/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/madison1/grips-1.htm ''Description of DeRuyter'' by Rev. L. R. Swinney, at USGenNet]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 ''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 35, 42 and 272; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)]
*[https://archive.today/20130111100547/http://history.rays-place.com/ny/de-ruyter-ny.htm ''History of De Ruyter, NY - from Our County and Its People, a Descriptive and Biographical Record of Madison County, NY'' ed. by John E. Smith (The Boston History Company, 1899)]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=bz0OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA525 ''Political History of the State of New York from January 1, 1841, to January 1, 1847, Vol III, including the Life of Silas Wright''] by [Jabez Delano Hammond](/source/Jabez_Delano_Hammond) (Hall & Dickson, Syracuse NY, 1848) Google Books, page 525
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=AiFKAAAAMAAJ&q=benjamin+enos+b.+de+ruyter+d. ''The Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620''] by E. A. Doty (Higginson Genealogical Books, 1988)

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Category:1788 births
Category:1868 deaths
Category:Members of the New York State Assembly
Category:New York state treasurers
Category:People from Madison County, New York
Category:Town supervisors in New York (state)
Category:Erie Canal commissioners
Category:People from Richmond, Rhode Island
Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature

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