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Island">Washington County, Rhode Island</a> – February 4, 1868 in <a href="/wiki/DeRuyter_(town),_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="DeRuyter (town), New York">DeRuyter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_New_York" title="Madison County, New York">Madison County, New York</a>) was an American politician. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Enos&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was the son of Joseph Enos and Thankful Enos. On April 5, 1810, he married Sarah Doty (1788–1884) at <a href="/wiki/Canaan,_New_York" title="Canaan, New York">Canaan, New York</a>. In 1814, they settled in DeRuyter, NY. </p><p>He was a member from <a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_New_York" title="Madison County, New York">Madison County</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly" title="New York State Assembly">New York State Assembly</a> in 1834, 1839 and 1840. He was Supervisor of the Town of DeRuyter in 1837. In 1842, he was elected by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Legislature" title="New York State Legislature">New York State Legislature</a> a <a href="/wiki/Erie_Canal_Commission" title="Erie Canal Commission">canal commissioner</a>. As a member of the <a href="/wiki/Barnburners_and_Hunkers" title="Barnburners and Hunkers">Hunker</a> faction of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic Party</a>, he was <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Treasurer" title="New York State Treasurer">New York State Treasurer</a> from 1845 to 1846. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Enos&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/engmark-erick.html">Political Graveyard</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080625194932/http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/madison1/grips-1.htm"><i>Description of DeRuyter</i> by Rev. L. R. Swinney, at USGenNet</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35"><i>The New York Civil List</i> compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 35, 42 and 272; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://history.rays-place.com/ny/de-ruyter-ny.htm"><i>History of De Ruyter, NY - from Our County and Its People, a Descriptive and Biographical Record of Madison County, NY</i> ed. by John E. Smith (The Boston History Company, 1899)</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged October 2023">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bz0OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA525"><i>Political History of the State of New York from January 1, 1841, to January 1, 1847, Vol III, including the Life of Silas Wright</i></a> by <a href="/wiki/Jabez_Delano_Hammond" title="Jabez Delano Hammond">Jabez Delano Hammond</a> (Hall & Dickson, Syracuse NY, 1848) Google Books, page 525</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AiFKAAAAMAAJ&q=benjamin+enos+b.+de+ruyter+d."><i>The Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620</i></a> by E. 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Lansing">A. G. Lansing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Thomas_(New_York_politician)" title="David Thomas (New York politician)">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_G._Lansing" title="Abraham G. Lansing">A. G. Lansing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Thomas_(New_York_politician)" title="David Thomas (New York politician)">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Z._Platt" title="Charles Z. Platt">Platt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerrit_L._Dox" title="Gerrit L. Dox">Dox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Knower" title="Benjamin Knower">Knower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Keyser_Jr." title="Abraham Keyser Jr.">Keyser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamaliel_H._Barstow" title="Gamaliel H. Barstow">Barstow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Keyser_Jr." title="Abraham Keyser Jr.">Keyser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gamaliel_H._Barstow" title="Gamaliel H. Barstow">Barstow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Haight" title="Jacob Haight">Haight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Farrington_(American_politician)" title="Thomas Farrington (American politician)">Farrington</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Enos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Farrington_(American_politician)" title="Thomas Farrington (American politician)">Farrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvah_Hunt" title="Alvah Hunt">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_M._Cook" title="James M. Cook">Cook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Welch_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Benjamin Welch Jr.">Welch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elbridge_G._Spaulding" title="Elbridge G. Spaulding">Spaulding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Clark_(New_York_treasurer)" title="Stephen Clark (New York treasurer)">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_V._Vanderpoel" title="Isaac V. 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