Benjamin A. Boseman

Benjamin Antony Boseman Jr. (July 30, 1840 – February 23, 1881), sometimes misspelled Bozeman, was an African-American medical doctor and state legislator.

Boseman was born in Troy, New York, son of Benjamin and Annaretta Boseman, the oldest of five children.

He studied in the Preparatory (high school) Division of New York Central College from 1854 to 1856.

After a lengthy apprenticeship with Dr. Thomas C. Brinsmade in Troy, Boseman completed his medical studies at Dartmouth Medical School in 1863 and Bowdoin College's Maine Medical College in 1864. Another source says that he had a son Christopher and a daughter Ana, and that Virginia was mulatto. representing Charleston County. As a legislator, he introduced in 1870 South Carolina's first comprehensive Civil Rights bill.

In 1869, the South Carolina Legislature, beginning the misspelling of his name as "Bozeman", appointed him and Francis L. Cardozo trustees of South Carolina College, predecessor of the University of South Carolina. He was also appointed to the Board of Regents of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum.

In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Boseman the first Black postmaster of Charleston. His salary was $4,000 . He invested in railroad and phosphate mining. Boseman served as postmaster until his death in 1881, at the age of 40 (not 41).