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Wade, Benjamin Franklin

lawyer, jurist, state senator, United States senator, was born Oct. 27, 1800, in Feeding Hills Parish, Mass. He was a justice of the peace, prosecuting attorney for Ashtabula county, state senator, and president of a judicial circuit. In 1851 he was elected a senator in congress from Ohio for the term ending in 1857; and was twice re-elected, his third term ending in 1869. At the meeting of the fortieth congress he was chosen president of the senate pro tempore. In 1869 he was appointed a commissioner for the Pacific Railroad company. He died March 2, 1878, in Jefferson, Ohio.