Benjamin F. Harding
Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.
He was born near Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania on January 4, 1823. Harding was educated in the public schools before he studying law. He passed the bar in 1847, and then set up practice in Joliet, Illinois in 1849. In 1850, he moved first to California, and then to the Oregon Territory.
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