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1939–1999
Benjamin D. Brown (November 14, 1939 – February 1, 1999) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
[between 1877-1895]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGFront of the Benjamin Dawodus Ready Produce Warehouse, Lagos, Nigeria, between 1877-1895. Group of around forty men posing before the building. One man seated in a large wicker chair. Sign above the main door states, "BENJAMIN DAWODUS READY PRODUCE…
1993–
Benjamin Dean Henry (born 8 November 1993) is an English writer. He began his career as a celebrity reporter for BuzzFeed UK and has since become an author of children's and young adult fiction.
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Benjamin "BJ" Dennis IV is an American Gullah Geechee chef and caterer from Charleston, South Carolina who is known for preserving Gullah Geechee cooking and culture. Additionally, he is also notable for his discovery of hill rice in December 2016 in…
ca. 1890
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGTwo-story house with a shuttered balcony in Lagos, Nigeria, between 1877-1895. Accompany inscription reads, "Benjamin Dowdin House Lagos." Photographer unknown.
1820–
Benjamin F. Alexander was an American politician. He was a delegate to Alabama's 1867 Constitutional Convention and a state representative for Greene County, Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He lived in Eutaw. A farmer, he was born in North Carolina…
1869–1928
Benjamin Franklin Bowles (1869–1928), commonly written as B. F. Bowles, was an African American civil rights leader, teacher, high school principal, and the founder and president of Douglass University, a 20th-century college for African Americans in…
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Benjamin F. Gibson (July 13, 1931 – January 13, 2021) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
1847–1925
Benjamin F. Hicks (1847–1925) was an American inventor who was the first to patent the gasoline-powered peanut picker.
1884–1958
Benjamin Franklin Hubert (December 25, 1884 – April 29, 1958) served as president of Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth continuing when it became Georgia State College from 1926 until 1947. It is now Savannah State University.
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Benjamin Franklin Lee (September 18, 1841 – March 12, 1926) was a religious leader and educator in the United States. He was the president of Wilberforce University from 1876 to 1884. He was editor of the Christian Recorder from 1884 to 1892.
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Benjamin Franklin McAdoo Jr. (October 29, 1920 – June 18, 1981) was an American architect. He designed several residential, civic, and commercial structures in the Seattle area in a modernist aesthetic influenced by the Northwest Regional style.
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Benjamin Franklin Peery Jr., (4 March 1922 - 30 November 2010) was an American physicist, astronomer, and longtime professor at Indiana University and Howard University. He was the second African American person to receive a doctorate in astronomy.
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Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1820 – October 16, 1868) was an American educator, spiritual advisor, newspaper editor who served as a South Carolina state senator during the Reconstruction Era. Randolph was selected to be one of the first African American…
1815–1881
Benjamin Franklin Roberts (September 4, 1815 – September 6, 1881) was an African-American printer, writer, activist and abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts, whose famous case on behalf of his daughter, Sarah Roberts v. Boston, resulted in a verdict that…
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Benjamin F. Royal was a state senator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was elected to the state senate in 1868, and was the first African American to serve in the chamber. He represented Bullock County and served for nine years. He served as a…
Biography
Benjamin Franklin Seldon, usually referred to as Benjamin F. Seldon or B. F. Seldon, was an African American educator. He served in World War I as a YMCA secretary, taught at the University of Toulouse, and was State Supervisor of Negro Adult Education in…
1920–2016
Benjamin Franklin Shobe (October 2, 1920 – January 29, 2016) was an American civil rights attorney and jurist who advocated for the desegregation of public education and public facilities in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
2002–
Benjamin Christopher Flores Jr. (born July 24, 2002), also known as BNJII (formerly known as Lil' P-Nut), is an American rapper and actor. Beginning as a child actor, Flores starred as Louie Preston in the Nickelodeon television series The Haunted…
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Benjamin Frank Adair (1852 – March 28, 1902) was a lawyer who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1891 representing Pulaski County.
1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA documentary film with the title Benjamin Franklin. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm acetate film with optical sound. The documentary explores the life and contributions of American “scientist, statesman, scholar and sage” Benjamin Franklin. It…
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Benjamin Franklin Scott (1922–2000) was an American chemist and one of the African American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project, working at the University of Chicago.
1819–1886
Benjamin Franklin Williams (1819–1886) was a Methodist minister and Republican politician who served three terms in the Texas Legislature, served as a delegate to two Texas Constitutional Conventions, and helped found the freedmen's community of Kendleton.
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley (April 22, 1882 – February 1, 1939) was an American author and educator. Several of his books were considered standard college texts, including The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (1918) and New Survey of English…
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