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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriMaecenas Eason BENTON
(1848-1924)
BENTON, Maecenas Eason,
(great nephew of Thomas Hart Benton), a Representative from
Missouri; born near Dyersburg, Obion County, Tenn., January 29,
1848; attended two west Tennessee academies and St. Louis
University; was graduated from the law department of Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1870; served in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; was admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Neosho, Newton County, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of
Newton County 1878-1884; United States attorney from March 1885 to
July 1889; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896;
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth,
Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3,
1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the
Fifty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Neosho, Mo.;
member of the State constitutional conventions in 1922 and 1924;
died in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., April 27, 1924; interment
in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Neosho, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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