Cleve Benedict

Cleveland Keith Benedict ( born March 21, 1935 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) is a former American politician. Between 1981 and 1983 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cleve Benedict attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1953, the Hill School in Pottstown. By 1959, he then studied at Princeton University; after he was until 1962 at the Graham School for Cattlemen in Graham ( Kansas). In the following years he worked as a dairy farmer.

Benedict was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1974 and 1975 he was a member of the Parole Board of West Virginia; 1975 to 1977 he was State Commissioner for Finance and Administration ( Commissioner, Finance and Administration). From 1977 to 1980 Benedict was party leader of the Republicans in West Virginia. Since 1964 to 1976 he participated in all regional party conferences. In 1984 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Dallas, on the U.S. President Ronald Reagan was nominated for a second term.

1980 Benedict in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC was selected. There he entered on January 3, 1981 to succeed the Democrats Harley Orrin Staggers. He was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Since he resigned in 1982 to another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1983.

In the same year Benedict ran unsuccessfully for the Senate of the United States. In 1984 he failed in an attempt to return to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1983 he worked for the federal Department of Energy. Between 1985 and 1986 he was chairman of the RSM Inc., a Washington-based company. From 1989 to 1993 he was Commissioner of Agriculture of West Virginia. In 1992, Benedict competed unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of West Virginia; in the years 1996 and 2000 he was again a delegate to the Republican National Conventions. He now works again as dairy farmers.

Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Governor (United States) Jacob B. Blair Chester D. Hubbard Isaac H. Duval John J. Davis (congressman) Benjamin Wilson (congressman) George W. Atkinson John W. Davis Matthew M. Neely Carl G. Bachmann Robert L. Ramsay (politician) A. C. Schiffler Francis J. Love Bob Mollohan Arch A. Moore, Jr. David McKinley William G. Brown, Sr. George R. Latham Bethuel Kitchen James McGrew John Hagans Charles J. Faulkner Benjamin F. Martin John B. Hoge William Lyne Wilson Alston G. Dayton Thomas Beall Davis George Cookman Sturgiss William Gay Brown, Jr. George Meade Bowers Robert E. Lee Allen Frank Llewellyn Bowman Jennings Randolph Melvin C. Snyder Harley O. Staggers, Jr. Bob Wise Shelley Moore Capito Frank Hereford John E. Kenna Charles P. Snyder John D. Alderson Charles Dorr David Emmons Johnston Joseph H. Gaines Adam Brown Littlepage Samuel B. Avis Stuart F. Reed John M. Wolverton Andrew Edmiston, Jr. Edward G. Rohrbough Cleveland M. Bailey John M. Slack, Jr. John G. Hutchinson Eustace Gibson James M. Jackson Charles Brooks Smith James Capehart Warren Miller (West Virginia Congressman) Romeo H. Freer James A. Hughes Harry C. Woodyard John M. Hamilton Hunter Holmes Moss, Jr. George William Johnson (congressman) Robert Lynn Hogg Hubert S. Ellis Maurice G. Burnside Will E. Neal Edward Cooper (congressman) Thomas Jefferson Lilly James F. Strother (West Virginia) John Kee Elizabeth Kee James Kee Howard Sutherland Leonard S. Echols J. Alfred Taylor Edward T. England Joe L. Smith E. H. Hedrick

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