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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJohn Samuel BENHAM
(1863-1935)
BENHAM, John Samuel, a
Representative from Indiana; born on a farm near Benham, Ripley
County, Ind., October 24, 1863; attended the public schools, a
business college in Delaware, Ohio, and a normal school in
Brookville, Ind.; taught school in the winter and attended college
in the summer, being engaged as a teacher in various places in
Indiana from 1882 to 1907; was graduated from Indiana State Normal
School at Terre Haute, Ind., in 1893 and from Indiana University at
Bloomington, Ind., in 1903; specialized in history at the
University of Chicago for several terms; superintendent of schools
for Ripley County for fourteen years; returned to Benham, Ind., in
1907 and engaged in the timber, milling, and contracting business;
also followed agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1916; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3,
1923); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings
(Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; moved to Batesville, Ripley
County, Ind., in 1923 and engaged as a building contractor; again
superintendent of schools for Ripley County, Ind., 1924-1929;
retired from active business pursuits in 1931 and resided in
Batesville, Ind., until his death there on December 11, 1935;
interment in Benham Church Cemetery, near Benham, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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