Benjamin Enos (February 13, 1788 in

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– February 4, 1868 in DeRuyter,

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) 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

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. In 1814, they settled in DeRuyter, NY. He was a member from Madison County of the

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in 1834, 1839 and 1840. He was Supervisor of the Town of DeRuyter in 1837. In 1842, he was elected by the

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. As a member of the Hunker faction of the

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, he was New York State Treasurer from 1845 to 1846.

Sources

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* ttps://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)br>''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)''Political History of the State of New York from January 1, 1841, to January 1, 1847, Vol III, including the Life of Silas Wright''
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(Hall & Dickson, Syracuse NY, 1848) Google Books, page 525
''The Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620''
by E. A. Doty (Higginson Genealogical Books, 1988) {{DEFAULTSORT:Enos, Benjamin 1788 births 1868 deaths Members of the New York State Assembly New York State Treasurers People from Madison County, New York Town supervisors in New York (state) Erie Canal Commissioners People from Richmond, Rhode Island 19th-century American politicians