I believe I understand what this piece of description is saying with regards
to the subject but I'm confused by the last part and therefore not sure how to
correctly parse it:

> 数年前の経歴も局長の立場から調べてあるが、何しろ冤罪によって部局を追放された身である為,

Is "身である為" the same as saying "身のためである" which means "for your own benefit"? In
which case the sentence would probably go something like this - "he was
evicted from the department anyway due to false accusations [for his own
benefit]".
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Parsing help: "身である為"
This is ため meaning "because", giving a reason. It's always a bit hard to
translate a sentence with 身 in it. Basically "because/since he is a person
evicted from the department~".

You must know about relative clauses in Japanese, 走る男 and such, yes? When you
want to use a noun to modify another noun, you cannot use です or だ, you have to
use である. So 学生である人 = person who is a student.
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身 here means one's social status or position but not physical body. It is the
same with one in 身分. 為 'for' can mean 'on behalf of' and 'because', here it
means 'because'. "In the capacity of a person who purged for a false
charge..."
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