RARE \"New York Congressman\" Benjamin Pringle Clipped Signature For Sale

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RARE \"New York Congressman\" Benjamin Pringle Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "New York Congressman" Benjamin Pringle Clipped Signature.

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Benjamin

Pringle (November 9, 1807 – June 7, 1887)

was a United States Representative from New York.

Born in Richfield Springs, Otsego County, he

completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1830 and

practiced for a number of years. He was president of a bank in Batavia,

Genesee County and was judge of the Genesee County Court from 1841

to 1846. Pringle was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate

to the Thirty-fourth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1853, to March 3,

1857. During the Thirty-fourth Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on

Indian Affairs. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the

Thirty-fifth Congress and was a member of the New York

State Assembly (Genesee Co.) in 1862. Pringle was

appointed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 judge of the court of arbitration in Cape Town

(in what is now South Africa) under the treaty with Great Britain of April 7, 1862

for the suppression of the African slave trade. He was appointed a member

of the board of trustees of the State Institution for the Blind in 1873, and in

1887 died in Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota.

Interment was in the Old Cemetery, Batavia.

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