Benjamin Franklin Loan (4 October 1819-30 March 1881) was a member of the US House of Representatives (U-MO 7) from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1869, succeeding John W. Noell and preceding Joel F. Asper.
Biography[]
Benjamin Franklin Loan was born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky in 1819, and he moved to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1838. He became a lawyer in 1840, and he served as a Brigadier-General of the Union Army militia during the American Civil War before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Loan later served as a delegate to the 1876 Republican National Convention, and he died in 1881.