Background
Buchanan, Benjamin Franklin was born on October 4, 1859 in Rich Valley, Smyth Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Patrick Campbell and Virginia (Copenhaver) Buchanan.
Buchanan, Benjamin Franklin was born on October 4, 1859 in Rich Valley, Smyth Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Patrick Campbell and Virginia (Copenhaver) Buchanan.
Bachelor of Laws, University of Virginia, 1884. Doctor of Laws, Hampden-Sidney College, 1922.
Admitted to Virginia bar, 1885, and began practice at Marion. Member Buchanan & Buchanan. General counsel comptroller of the currency, Washington, District of Columbia, 1915-1921.
Counsel Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Mathiesen Alkali works, et cetera
Member Virginia Senate, 1893-1897, 1915-1917, 1922-1930. Lieutenant governor of Virginia, 1917-1921.
Delegate Democratic National Convention, Kansas City, Baltimore and San Francisco. Member State Committee to Revise Tax Laws of Virginia, 1915.
Patron of bill providing for segregation system of taxation in Virginia.
Mason.; Member commission, State of Virginia, to present replica of Houdon statue of George Washington to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Trafalgar Square, London, June 20, 1921.
Married Eleanor Fairman Sheffey, March 3, 1887. Children: John Preston, Patrick Campbell (deceased), Frank (deceased), Josephine, Virginia B. (wife of G. B. Denit, United States of America), Eleanor Fairman (Mistress Watson Stareher), David Haytor.