Home of Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, ' Sycamores ', a former dormitory for the college

The home of Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, known as " The Sycamores ", served as a dormitory for the college from 1915 – 1970.

* Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge ( 1739 – 1819 ) was a doctor, a colonel of the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, and a member of the Massachusetts legislature.

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Benjamin Ruggles ( February 21, 1783September 2, 1857 ) was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio.

* Benjamin Ruggles entry at The Political Graveyard

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* Benjamin Ruggles ( R / NR-OH ) 1821-1833

* Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge ( 1739 – 1819 ), a colonel in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War

* Benjamin Franklin: Charles Ruggles

Benjamin Woodbridge was ordained in Amity, and it is after him that the modern town was named.

* Benjamin Harrison and Governor Woodbridge

Grayson was born in 1740 to parents Benjamin Grayson and Susannah Monroe Grayson at Belle Aire Plantation in what is now Woodbridge, Virginia.

* Benjamin Woodbridge ( 1708 – 1728 ), victim of the first duel fought in Boston

His father was Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston ( 1739 – 1802 ), and his mother Mary ( 1752 – 1805 ), daughter of Benjamin Mee, a London merchant.

* 1916 – Benjamin Libet, American scientist ( d. 2007 )

* 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American theorist

* 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( b. 1757 )

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1907 – Benjamin Henry Sheares, Singaporean politician, 2nd President of Singapore ( d. 1981 )

* 1974 – Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner

* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

* 1897 – Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist ( d. 1941 )

Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, ( 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881 ) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservative statesman and literary figure.

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin ( 1997 ) – fresh look at the intellectual roots of Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's Science ( 1990 ) – Cohen, the leading specialist, has several books on Franklin's science

Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective ( 1993 ) – scholarly essays

* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

* Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 Text of biography by Rev.

* Benjamin Franklin 300 ( 1706 – 2006 ) Official web site of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary.

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

In 1998, Pensacola Christian College produced a widely distributed videotape, arguing that this " leaven of fundamentalism " was passed from the 19th-century Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 – 1921 ) to Charles Brokenshire ( 1885 – 1954 ), who served BJU as Dean of the School of Religion, and then to current BJU faculty members and graduates.