# Benjamin Ruggles

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{{Short description|American senator for Ohio (1783–1857)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name                = Benjamin Ruggles
|image = BRuggles.jpg
|jr/sr1              = United States Senator
|state1               = [Ohio](/source/Ohio)
|term_start1          = March 4, 1815
|term_end1            = March 3, 1833
|predecessor1         = [Joseph Kerr](/source/Joseph_Kerr)
|successor1           = [Thomas Morris](/source/Thomas_Morris_(Ohio_politician))
|birth_date         = {{birth date|1783|2|21}}
|birth_place        = [Abington, Connecticut](/source/Abington%2C_Connecticut)
|death_date         = {{death date and age|1857|9|2|1783|2|21}}
|death_place        = [St. Clairsville, Ohio](/source/St._Clairsville%2C_Ohio)
|party               = [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party)
}}
'''Benjamin Ruggles''' (February 21, 1783{{spaced ndash}}September 2, 1857) was a [National Republican](/source/United_States_National_Republican_Party) and [Whig](/source/Whig_Party_(United_States)) politician from [Ohio](/source/Ohio). He served in the [U.S. Senate](/source/United_States_Senate).

==Biography==
Born in [Abington, Connecticut](/source/Abington%2C_Connecticut), Ruggles studied law and was [admitted](/source/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_United_States) to the [bar](/source/Bar_(law)). Ruggles moved to [Marietta, Ohio](/source/Marietta%2C_Ohio), to practice law in 1807, then moved to [St. Clairsville, Ohio](/source/St._Clairsville%2C_Ohio), in 1810.

==Career==
After serving as a judge in the Ohio state courts from 1810 to 1815, Ruggles was elected to the Senate, serving three terms from 1815-1833. He did not run for re-election in 1832. Ohio [Presidential elector](/source/Presidential_elector) in 1836 for Whig [William Henry Harrison](/source/William_Henry_Harrison).<ref>Taylor 1899 : 193</ref>

==Family life==
Ruggles married in Connecticut in 1812. His first wife died in St. Clairsville in 1817, and he remarried in 1825.<ref>{{cite book |title=History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio| last=Caldwell |year=1880 |page=239 |url=http://debmurray.tripod.com/ohio/belbioref-6.htm#ruggles}}</ref>

==Death==
Ruggles died on September 2, 1857, and was buried in Saint Clairsville Union Cemetery in [St. Clairsville, Ohio](/source/St._Clairsville%2C_Ohio).<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000500 ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress'']</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{CongBio|R000500}}

==External links==
*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruggles.html#604.92.68 Benjamin Ruggles entry] at [The Political Graveyard](/source/The_Political_Graveyard)
*{{find a Grave|6839969}}
*{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Ruggles, Benjamin|year=1900 |short=x}}
*{{cite book |title=Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... |first1=William Alexander |last1=Taylor |first2=Aubrey Clarence |last2=Taylor |year=1899 |publisher=State of Ohio |volume=1 |ref=taylor1899|page=193
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193}}

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{{U.S. Senator box
| state=Ohio
| class=1
| before=[Joseph Kerr](/source/Joseph_Kerr)
| after=[Thomas Morris](/source/Thomas_Morris_(Ohio_politician))
| alongside=[Jeremiah Morrow](/source/Jeremiah_Morrow), [William A. Trimble](/source/William_A._Trimble), [Ethan A. Brown](/source/Ethan_Allen_Brown), [William H. Harrison](/source/William_Henry_Harrison), [Jacob Burnet](/source/Jacob_Burnet), [Thomas Ewing](/source/Thomas_Ewing)
| years=1815–1833}}
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{{s-bef | before=[Calvin Pease](/source/Calvin_Pease)}}
{{s-ttl | title=President Judge of the [Ohio Court of Common Pleas](/source/Ohio_Courts_of_Common_Pleas)<br />3rd Judicial Circuit | years=1810–1815}}
{{s-aft | after=[George Tod](/source/George_Tod_(judge))}}
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Category:1783 births
Category:1857 deaths
Category:People from Pomfret, Connecticut
Category:Democratic-Republican Party United States senators from Ohio
Category:National Republican Party United States senators from Ohio
Category:Ohio Democratic-Republicans
Category:Ohio National Republicans
Category:Ohio Whigs
Category:1836 United States presidential electors
Category:People from St. Clairsville, Ohio
Category:Politicians from Marietta, Ohio
Category:Ohio lawyers
Category:19th-century Ohio state court judges
Category:19th-century American lawyers
Category:19th-century United States senators
Category:American people of English descent

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