{{Short description|American politician}} {{use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000005. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Benjamin Tucker Eames | honorific_suffix = | image = Benjamin T. Eames formerly representative in congress.jpg | alt = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name above --> | birth_date = {{birth date|1818|6|4}} | birth_place = Dedham, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age|1901|10|6|1818|6|4}} | death_place = East Greenwich, Rhode Island | death_cause = | resting_place = Swan Point Cemetery | state = Rhode Island | district = 1st | term_start = March 4, 1871 | term_end = March 3, 1879 | predecessor = Thomas Jenckes | successor = Nelson W. Aldrich | office2 = Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives | term2 = {{ubl|1859-1860|1868-1869|1879-1881}} | office3 = Member of the Rhode Island Senate | term3 = {{ubl|1854-1857|1863-1864|1884-1885}} | prior_term = | alma_mater = Yale College | occupation = Lawyer | spouse = | party = Republican }} '''Benjamin Tucker Eames''' (June 4, 1818 – October 6, 1901) was a U.S. representative from Rhode Island.

Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Eames attended the common schools of Providence, Rhode Island, and academies in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was employed as a bookkeeper for several years. He graduated from Yale College in 1843, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.<ref name="psiupsilon">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCN-AAAAIAAJ | title=The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity | access-date=March 24, 2011 | year=1917| last1=Fraternity | first1=Psi Upsilon }}</ref>{{rp|69}} He engaged as a teacher in the academy at North Attleboro, studying law at the same time. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Providence, Rhode Island. He served as recording and reading clerk of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 1845–1850, and was a member of the Rhode Island Senate 1854–1857, 1863, and again in 1864. He was one of the commissioners on the revision of the public laws of the State of Rhode Island in 1857. He served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1859, 1860, 1868, and 1869.

Eames was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1871 &ndash; March 4, 1879). He served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-third Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination. He was again a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 1879–1881, and served again in the Rhode Island Senate in 1884 and 1885. He died in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, October 6, 1901. He was interred in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island.<ref>{{cite book|last=Spencer|first=Thomas E.|title=Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated|date=1998|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|page=296|isbn=9780806348230|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWao2lIGTEC&q=Elisha+Dyer+Jr.+swan+point+cemetery&pg=PA432}}</ref>

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