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Preceded by
  
Profession
  
lawyerpolitician

Citizenship
  
United States

Name
  
Augustus Bennet

Battles and wars
  
Political party
  
Role
  
Politician

Children
  
William S. Bennet II

Spouse(s)
  
Maxine Layne Bennet

Party
  

Augustus W. Bennet Augustus W Bennet Wikipedia

Born
  
October 7, 1897New York City, New York County, New York (
1897-10-07
)

Alma mater
  
Amherst CollegeColumbia University Law School

Died
  
June 5, 1983, Concord, Massachusetts, United States

Education
  
Columbia Law School, Amherst College, Columbia University

Succeeded by
  

Augustus Witschief Bennet (October 7, 1897 – June 5, 1983) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New York.

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Biography

Born in New York City, New York County, New York Bennet was a son of U.S. Representative William Stiles Bennet and Gertrude (Witschief) Bennet. He attended the public schools in New York City and Washington, D.C., and graduated from Amherst College in 1918.

During the First World War, Bennet served in the United States Naval Reserve Flying Corps with the rating of chief quartermaster from June 8, 1918 to January 19, 1919. He graduated from the Columbia University Law School at New York City in 1921, was admitted to the bar the same year.

Career

Bennet commenced practice in Newburgh. He was United States referee in bankruptcy from 1923 to 1944, and was married to Maxine Layne on October 19, 1929.

Elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth Congress, Bennet was U. S. Representative for the twenty-ninth district of New York and held that office from January 3, 1945 to January 3, 1947. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946.

Death

Resuming the practice of law, Bennet resided in Laguna Hills, California until he died in Concord, Massachusetts, on June 5, 1983 (age 85 years, 241 days). He was cremated, and his ashes are interred at Cedar Hills Mausoleum, Newburgh, New York.

References

Augustus W. Bennet Wikipedia


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