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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeBenton McMILLIN
(1845-1933)
McMILLIN, Benton, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Monroe County, Ky.,
September 11, 1845; attended Philomath Academy, Tennessee, and the
University of Kentucky at Lexington; studied law; was admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Celina, Clay County, Tenn., in
1871; member of the State house of representatives in 1874;
commissioned by the Governor to treat with the State of Kentucky
for the purchase of territory in 1875; attended every Democratic
National Convention between 1876 and 1932 except in 1920; member,
State house of representatives, 1875-1877; commissioned by the
Governor as a special judge of the circuit court in 1877; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the nine succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his resignation on
January 6, 1899, to become Governor; chairman, Committee on Claims
(Forty-eighth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of the Navy (Fifty-third Congress); elected Governor of
Tennessee in 1898, reelected in 1900, and served until 1903;
engaged in the insurance business in Nashville, Tenn.; appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru July 2,
1913, and served until September 22, 1919; represented the United
States at Guatemala in the same capacity from September 23, 1919,
to January 5, 1922; resumed the insurance business in Nashville,
Tenn., where he died on January 8, 1933; interment in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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