Benjamin Huntington (April 19, 1736 – October 16, 1800) was an eighteenth-century American lawyer, jurist and politician from Connecticut and served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the First United States Congress.
He graduated from Yale College in 1761 and was appointed surveyor of lands for Windham County in October 1764.
In 1775, he served on the committee of safety in the State House and was appointed to advise with Governor Jonathan Trumbull during the recess of the legislature.
[8] In 1793, he was appointed judge of the superior court of Connecticut, holding this office until 1798.
Huntington died on October 16, 1800, in Rome, New York, and is interred in the Old Colony Cemetery in Norwich.