Benjamin Carver
Benjamin Carver | |
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| Member of the New York State Assembly from Herkimer County | |
| In office 1839–1840 Serving with Atwater Cooke Jr. | |
| Preceded by | Abijah Mann Jr. and Volney Owen |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Bellinger and George Burch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1876 |
| Died | July 16, 1879 (aged 2–3) Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Party | Democratic |
| Children | 6 |
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| Relatives | Hartwell Carver (brother) Levi Leiter (son-in-law) Samuel Remington (son-in-law) |
| Profession | banker, businessman |
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Benjamin F. Carver (1796–July 16, 1879) was an American banker, businessman, and politician. He was involved in numerous business ventures, including banks, in his native state of New York before departing for Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the late-1850s, where he continued to work in banking and amassed a sizable fortune. He served in the New York General Assembly from 1839 to 1840, being elected in 1838 as a Democrat to a seat representing Herkimer County. He was the Democratic nominee for mayor of Chicago in the city's 1857 mayoral election, losing to Republican nominee John Wentworth.