Benjamin Franklin Hawkins Witherell (August 4, 1797 – June 26, 1867) was a jurist in the U.S. state of Michigan.
With the impending outbreak of hostilities in the War of 1812, Benjamin was sent back to Vermont with his mother in 1811.
He then studied law in the offices of his father and of Territorial Secretary William Woodbridge and was admitted to the bar in 1819.
He was subsequently admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on the motion of Daniel Webster.
Soon afterwards, the state legislature abolished the District Court of the County of Wayne, officiated by Judge Henry C. Chipman, and replaced it with the District Court for the Counties of Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw and Jackson.
He also took an active interest in all public affairs during the Civil War, and was the originator, and chosen President of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association at the time of his death.
[7] He wrote several articles on the early history of Michigan for the Detroit Free Press under the pen name 'Hamtramck'.