district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place jr/sr nationality party term_end preceded profession birth_date term_start image article_title state name alma_mater
13th thomas taggart george ford charles g. conn march 14 , 1916 -lrb- aged 58 -rrb- washington , d.c. osceola , indiana u.s senator american national anti-monopolist , democrat march 3 , 1893 14 , 1916 march 3 , 1885 march james a. hemenway william h. calkins george ford attorney march 20 , 1857 march 4 , 1887 4 , 1909 december 1 , 1884 march shively , benjamin franklin.jpg benjamin f. shively
 indiana indiana benjamin franklin shively northern ann arbor indiana normal school , university of michigan at
benjamin f. shively

benjamin franklin shively -lrb- march 20 , 1857 -- march 14 , 1916 -rrb- was a united states representative and senator from indiana .
born near osceola , indiana , attended the common schools and the northern indiana normal school at valparaiso .
he taught school from 1874 to 1880 , engaged in journalism from 1880 to 1884 , and was secretary of the national anti-monopoly association in 1883 .
in 1884 he was president of the board of indiana university and was elected as a national anti-monopolist to the forty-eighth congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of william h. calkins , serving from december 1 , 1884 , to march 3 , 1885 .
shively graduated from the law department of the university of michigan at ann arbor in 1886 , was admitted to the bar , and commenced practice in south bend , indiana .
he was elected as a democrat to the fiftieth , fifty-first , and fifty-second congresses , serving from march 4 , 1887 to march 4 , 1893 ; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1892 , and resumed the practice of law in south bend .
he was an unsuccessful democratic candidate for governor of indiana in 1896 , and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the sixtieth congress ; in 1909 he was elected to the u.s. senate , was reelected in 1914 and served from march 4 , 1909 , until his death .
while in the senate he was chairman of the committee on pacific railroads -lrb- sixty-second congress -rrb- and a member of the committee on pensions -lrb- sixty-third and sixty-fourth congresses -rrb- .
shively died in washington , d.c. ; interment was in the brookville cemetery , brookville , pennsylvania .
