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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriMarion Tinsley BENNETT
(1914-2000)
BENNETT, Marion Tinsley,
(son of Philip A. Bennett), a Representative from Missouri; born in
Buffalo, Dallas County, Mo., June 6, 1914; attended the public
schools of Buffalo, Jefferson City, and Springfield, Mo.; Southwest
Missouri State College at Springfield, A.B., 1935 and Washington
University School of Law, St. Louis, Mo., J.D., 1938; was admitted
to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in Springfield, Mo.;
served as secretary to his father, Congressman Philip A. Bennett,
1941-1943; colonel in United States Air Force Reserve until 1974;
member of the Greene County (Mo.) Republican central committee
1938-1942; delegate to Missouri State Conventions, 1938, 1940,
1944, 1946, and 1948; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father;
reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses and served
from January 12, 1943, to January 3, 1949; congressional delegate
to inspect atrocity camps in Germany, 1945; was an unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress;
commissioner, United States Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.,
January 4, 1949, to September 11, 1964, when he became chief
commissioner and served until July 7, 1972; judge, U.S. Court of
Claims, 1972-1982; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
circuit, 1982; senior U.S. Circuit judge, 1986-1987; died in
Alexandria, Va., on September 6, 2000; interment at Hazelwood
Cemetery, Springfield, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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