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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaBENNETT, Charles Edward
(1910—2003)
BENNETT, Charles Edward, a Representative from Florida; born in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., December 2, 1910; attended the Tampa schools; J.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1934; lawyer, private practice; member of the Florida state house of representatives, 1941; United States Army, 1942-1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the twenty-one succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1993); chair, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ninety-sixth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; died on September 6, 2003, in Jacksonville, Fla.
Bennett, Charles E. “Congressional Ethics.” In Congress and Conscience
, edited by John B. Anderson, pp. 97-126. New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1970.
———. Florida’s “French” Revolution, 1793-1795.
Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1981.
———. “Fort Caroline, Cradle of American Freedom.” Florida Historical Quarterly
35 (July 1956): 3-16.
———. Laudonnière and Fort Caroline: History and Documents.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1964.
———, trans. Three Voyages
. By René Laudonnière. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1975.
Bennett, Charles E., and Donald R. Lennon. A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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