Benjamin Franklin Thomas (12 February 1813-27 September 1878) was a US House of Representatives (U-MA 3) from 11 June 1861 to 3 March 1863, succeeding Charles Francis Adams Sr. and preceding Alexander H. Rice.
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Benjamin Franklin Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1813, and he moved to Worcester and became a lawyer in 1833. He served in the State House in 1842, as a probate judge for Worcester County from 1844 to 1848, as a Massachusetts Supreme Court justice from 1853 to 1859, on the US House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863, and worked for the American Antiquarian Society for the rest of his life. He died in 1878.