Benjamin Ames (30 October 1778-28 September 1835) was the Democratic-Republican Governor of Maine from 5 December 1821 to 5 January 1822, succeeding William D. Williamson and preceding Daniel Rose.
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Benjamin Ames was born in Andover, Massachusetts in 1778, and he became a lawyer in Bath, Maine in 1806. He served as Lincoln County attorney from 1807 to 1811, as a common pleas court judge from 1811 to 1814, as a major in the state militia during the War of 1812, as a member of Bowdoin College's Board of Overseers from 1818 to 1828, in the State House in 1820, and as Governor from 1821 to 1822. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio after a lack of continued political success before returning to Maine, and he died in 1835.