Benjamin Pringle (November 9, 1807 – June 7, 1887) was a

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. Born in Richfield Springs, Otsego County, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1830 and practiced for a number of years. He was president of a bank in Batavia, Genesee County and was judge of the Genesee County Court from 1841 to 1846. Pringle was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an

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candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1857. During the Thirty-fourth Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress and was a member of the

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(Genesee Co.) in

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. Pringle was appointed by President

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in 1863 judge of the

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. He was appointed a member of the board of trustees of the State Institution for the Blind in 1873, and in 1887 died in Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota. Interment was in the Old Cemetery, Batavia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pringle, Benjamin 1807 births 1887 deaths People from Richfield Springs, New York Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Opposition Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Members of the New York State Assembly People from Genesee County, New York 19th-century American politicians