
Benjamin Sterling Turner (17 March 1825-21 March 1894) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-AL 1) from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1873, succeeding Alfred Eliab Buck and preceding Frederick George Bromberg.
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Benjamin Sterling Turner was born into slavery in Weldon, Halifax County, North Carolina in 1825, and he was raised in Alabama. He set up a livery stable near Selma during Reconstruction, became the Dallas County tax collector in 1867, a Selma councilman in 1869, a member of the US House of Representatives from 1871 to 1873, and a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention before dying in 1894.