Benjamin Markley Boyer (January 22, 1823 – August 16, 1887) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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. Benjamin M. Boyer was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the

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in 1841. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced. He was deputy attorney general of

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, from 1848 to 1850. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from

to the

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as a

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, and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868. In 1866 he accepted stocks from Thomas Durant in the early stages of the

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. He was appointed judge of Montgomery County Court in 1882 and served until his death in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in 1887. Interment in

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.Benjamin Markley Boyer
'' Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''. Accessed August 29, 2007.

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