Benjamin Pond
Bemjamin Pond | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 8th district | |
In office March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813 | |
Preceded by | John Thompson |
Succeeded by | Samuel Sherwood |
Personal details | |
Born | 1768 Democratic-Republican |
Benjamin Pond (1768 – October 6, 1814) was a
Early life
He was born in
Political career
His political career began in 1804 when he became a
In 1810 Pond was elected as a
During the War of 1812 he served in the New York Militia as a matross in Captain Russell Walker’s company of the 6th Artillery Regiment. He participated in the defense of northern New York and took part in the September, 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh.
Death
In 1814 Pond was elected to the Fourteenth Congress, the term of which was scheduled to begin on March 4, 1815. He died in Schroon on October 6, 1814, of disease incurred through exposure at the Battle of Plattsburgh, and so never took his seat in the Fourteenth Congress.
Pond was buried in North Hudson's Pine Ridge Cemetery. On September 3, 1923, he was re-interred in Elizabethtown, New York's Riverside Cemetery.
Resources
- United States Congress. "Benjamin Pond (id: P000425)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.