Alvin Morell Bentley

Alvin Morell Bentley ( born August 30, 1918 in Portland, Maine, † April 10, 1969 in Tucson, Arizona ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1961 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alvin Bentley visited the Southern Pines High School in North Carolina and then to 1936 the Asheville Prep School, also in the state of North Carolina until 1934. Subsequently, he studied until 1940 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Bentley finished his education with studies at the Turner's Diplomatic School in Washington. After that he began in the diplomatic service of the federal government to work. In the following years he worked in Mexico, Colombia, Hungary, and Italy as a diplomat. After his return in March 1950, he worked for the State Department. In the same year he resigned from the service because he did not agree with the foreign policy of President Harry S. Truman.

After the end of his work in the diplomatic service Bentley moved to Owosso, Michigan. Politically, he was a member of the Republican whose regional party days in Michigan, he attended 1950-1952. Business, he was Vice President of the 1952 Lake Huron Broadcasting Co. in Saginaw. He was also a director of Mitchell - Bentley Corp.. In the congressional elections of 1952 he was elected the eighth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeds Fred L. Crawford took on 3 January 1953 he had beaten in the primaries. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1961 four legislative sessions. During this time, on March 1, 1954 shooting in the Capitol, was opened as a Puerto Rican nationalists of a visitors ' gallery of the House of Representatives, which meets fire on the deputies occurred. Bentley was one of five members of Congress who were injured: One bullet hit him in the chest; He survived with serious injuries.

1960 Bentley decided not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate: He defeated the Democratic incumbent Patrick V. McNamara. In the years 1961 and 1962 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of Michigan. In 1962, he competed unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Since 1966, Bentley board member of the University of Michigan, where he had called the Alvin M. Bentley Foundation launched in 1961, supports the various projects of the university. Alvin Bentley died on April 10, 1969 in Tucson, and was buried in Owosso.