Background
Benjamin F. Loan was born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky.
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Education
He studied law in Kentucky, and then moved to Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1838.
Career
He pursued an academic course and received a college education. He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced in Saint Joseph. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Federal Missouri State Militia on November 27, 1861.
General Loan participated in counter-guerrilla operations, including the victory against Colonel John A. Poindexter"s irregular cavalry at the Battle of Yellow Creek on August 13, 1862.
Loan was honorably discharged on June 8, 1863, and returned home. Loan was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Fortieth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress.
He resumed the practice of law in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress. Benjamin Loan died in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and was interred in Mount Mora Cemetery.
Membership
He was appointed by President Ulysses South. Grant as a member of the board of visitors to the United States Military Academy in 1869.
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Political Party
Republican party