Benjamin Markley Boyer (January 22, 1823 – August 16, 1887) was a Democratic member of the

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from

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. Benjamin M. Boyer was born in

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. 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 Thirty-Ninth Congress as a Democrat, 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 Crédit Mobilier scandal. He was appointed judge of Montgomery County Court in 1882 and served until his death in

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, in 1887. Interment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyer, Benjamin 1823 births 1887 deaths Pennsylvania lawyers Pennsylvania state court judges University of Pennsylvania alumni People from Pottstown, Pennsylvania Burials at West Laurel Hill Cemetery Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century Pennsylvania state court judges 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives