Benjamin Blackledge (August 25, 1743 – November 27, 1815) was an American educator and public official. He was the first teacher of English language in Closter, New Jersey, and rose to become "the most prominent man in the northern part of Bergen County". In recognition of his contributions to society, the borough of Closter, in 1998, named a street, Blackledge Court after him.
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“Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”
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