Benjamin Walker (representative)
- Benjamin Walker (representative)
Captain Benjamin Walker (1753 - January 13,1818) was a United States Representative from New York; born in London, England, he attended the Blue-Coat School, emmigrated to the United States and settled in New York City; served in the Revolutionary War as an aide-de-camp to General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (reputed to be the male companion of the Baron during his aide-de-camp appointment) [William Benemann, Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships, Haworth Press 2006 ISBN 1560233451] and subsequently as a member of the staff of General George Washington; served as a captain and naval officer of customs at the port of New York from March 21, 1791 to February 20, 1798; moved to Fort Schuyler (now Utica), N.Y. in 1797; agent of the great landed estate of the Earl of Bath; elected as a Federalist to the Seventh Congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1802; died in Utica, N.Y., January 13, 1818; internment in the Old Village Burying Ground on Water Street; reinterment, June 17, 1875, in Forest Hill Cemetery.
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