Benjamin Woodward (February 28, 1780 – May 11, 1841 Beaver Brook, Sullivan County, New York) was an American politician from

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Life

He was the son of Hezekiah Woodward. In 1807, Benjamin Woodward removed to Mount Hope, and Woodward was for some time Postmaster there. He was a member of the

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(Orange Co.) in 1814-15, 1820-21 and

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. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention (Orange Co.) of 1821. He was a member of the

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(2nd D.) from 1827 to 1830, sitting in the 50th, 51st, 52nd and

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s. He was buried at the Mount Hope Plains Cemetery in Otisville.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 57, 127f, 147, 190, 197, 204 and 317; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''List of Post-Offices in the United States, with the Names of the Postmasters''
issued by the U.S. Postmaster General (1828; pg. 77)
''From Abbotts to Zurich: New York State Placenames''
by Ren Vasiliev (Syracuse University Press, 2004; pg. 151)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodward, Benjamin 1780 births 1841 deaths People from Mount Hope, New York New York (state) state senators Members of the New York State Assembly New York (state) Democratic-Republicans New York (state) postmasters People from Sullivan County, New York 19th-century American politicians