Charles B. Benedict

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Charles Brewster Benedict (February 7, 1828 - October 3, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Attica Township, Wyoming County, New York, Benedict attended the public schools and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. He taught school and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Attica, New York. He was in the Justice of the Peace 1854-1860. He engaged in banking in 1859. He served as member of the board of supervisors of Wyoming County 1869-1871 and 1873-1875, serving a part of the time as chairman. He served as member of the Democratic State committee in 1875.

Benedict was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1878. He resumed banking in Attica, New York. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank at Moorhead, Minnesota, and also operated farming lands extensively in that vicinity. He died in Attica, New York, October 3, 1901. He was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery.

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• Charles B. Benedict at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress