Carville Benson

Carville Dickinson Benson (* August 24 1872 in Halethorpe, Baltimore County, Maryland, † February 8, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1918 and 1921 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carville Benson attended the public schools in Baltimore and then studied until 1890 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania). After a subsequent law studies at the University and his Baltimore in 1893 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1904 and 1910, and again in 1918 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland, which he was president in 1906. From 1912 to 1914 he was a member of the State Senate.

After the death of Mr Joshua Talbott Benson was at the due election for the second seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 5 November 1918. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1921 Congress. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

In 1920, Carville Benson was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer in Baltimore again. Since 1924 he was insurance commissioner of the State of Maryland. He died on February 8, 1929 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.