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Maecenas E. Benton

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Maecenas Eason Benton
From Volume 1 of 1899's Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court, and Fifty-fifth Congress
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's 15th district
In office
March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1905
Preceded byCharles Germman Burton
Succeeded byCassius M. Shartel
Personal details
BornJanuary 29, 1848
Dyersburg, Tennessee
DiedApril 27, 1924(1924-04-27) (aged 76)
Springfield, Missouri
Resting placeOdd Fellows Cemetery, Neosho, Missouri
Political partyDemocratic
ChildrenThomas Hart Benton
Alma materSaint Louis University
ProfessionLawyer
Military service
AllegianceConfederate States of America Confederate States of America
Branch/service Confederate States Army
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Maecenas Eason Benton (January 29, 1848 – April 27, 1924) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. He was the father of Thomas Hart Benton, who gained fame as a painter of the American Scene.

Biography

Born near Dyersburg, Tennessee, Benton attended two west Tennessee academies and Saint Louis University. He was graduated from the Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1870. He served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Neosho, Missouri. He served as prosecuting attorney of Newton County, Missouri, from 1878 to 1884 and subsequently the United States attorney from March 1885 to July 1889. He also served as delegate to the 1896 Democratic National Convention. On June 24, 1888 he married Elizabeth Wise of Waxahachie, Texas.

Congressional career

Benton was elected as a Democrat to the 55th, 56th, 57th, and 58th congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1905).[1] An unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1904 to the 59th Congress, he resumed his law practice in Neosho, Missouri, and served as member of the State constitutional conventions in 1922 and 1924. He died in Springfield, Missouri, April 27, 1924 of throat cancer and was interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Neosho, Missouri. He is pictured in the 1939 Neosho centennial mural, in Neosho, Missouri, by James Duard Marshall.

References

  1. ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 9, 1903. p. 65. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Missouri's 15th congressional district

1897–1905
Succeeded by
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