Later Years
In 1877, he became the Superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem by appointment of Governor Stephen F. Chadwick, serving two terms. He was appointed as the receiver at the Oregon City Land Office in 1887 by President Grover Cleveland. Benjamin Franklin Burch died on March 24, 1893, at the age of 67 at his farm near Independence.
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