Benjamin Franklin Whittemore (18 May 1824-25 January 1894) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SC 1) from 18 July 1868 to 24 February 1870, succeeding John McQueen and preceding Joseph Rainey.
Biography[]
Benjamin Franklin Whittemore was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1824, and he served as a Methodist chaplain in the Union Army during the American Civil War before settling in Darlington, South Carolina during Reconstruction. A carpetbagger Republican, he served in the US House of Representatives from 1868 to 1870, but he resigned due to a corruption scandal. He served in the State Senate from 1870 to 1877, and he returned to Woburn, Massachusetts to become a publisher and died in 1894.