Benjamin Waldo (1816 - 1871) was a doctor and state legislator in South Carolina. He relocated to Florida with his wife.

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is believed to have been named for him. Dr. Joseph Waldo of

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was his father. Waldo served in the

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representing

and served on the Medical Committee. He was sworn in 1846. He left after a year with his wife Sarah nee Lipscomb Waldo and settled in

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. He left the medical field due to Ill health and became a business partner of

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in Florida. He had a son who served in the

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and two daughters. Sallie B. Waldo was one of his daughters. She married

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an officer in the Confederate Army. He was a Captain in the Marion Light Artillery, and a member of the

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. Waldo lived on the Pine Hill Plantation in Marion County. News of his death reached his hometown in May, 1871.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Waldo, Benjamin 1816 births 1871 deaths Members of the South Carolina General Assembly 19th-century American politicians