- Benjamin Franklin Junkin
Benjamin Franklin Junkin (
November 12 ,1822 –October 9 ,1908 ) was a RepublicanUnited States Representative fromPennsylvania .Benjamin F. Junkin was born near
Carlisle, Pennsylvania . He graduated fromLafayette College inEaston, Pennsylvania . He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice inNew Bloomfield, Pennsylvania . He served as district attorney forPerry County, Pennsylvania , from 1850 to 1853.Junkin was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860. He resumed the practice of his profession in New Bloomfield. He served as president judge of the ninth judicial district from 1871 to 1881. He was solicitor of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1886 until his death in New Bloomfield in 1908. Interment in New Bloomfield Cemetery.ources
*CongBio|J000281
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/judge-jyles.html The Political Graveyard]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.