Hendley S. Bennett

Hendley Stone Bennett ( * April 7, 1807 in Franklin, Tennessee, † December 15, 1891 ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hendley Bennett was born in Tennessee, but he soon came to West Point in Mississippi, where he attended the public schools. After studying law and his 1830 was admitted as a lawyer in Columbus, he began to work in his new profession. Between 1846 and 1854 he worked as a judge.

Bennett was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1854, he was as their candidate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he William Taylor Sullivan Barry replaced on March 4, 1855. Since he was not nominated at the next election by his party for re-election, Bennett was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857.

After the end of his time in Congress Bennett again worked as a lawyer in Columbus. In 1859 he moved to Paris, Texas, where he also practiced law. Between August 5, 1861, and the August 31, 1862 Bennett was a soldier in the army of the Confederate States and adopted as such in the rank of Captain in the Civil War in part. He then worked again as a lawyer. In 1886, Hendley Bennett returned to his native Franklin. There, too, he practiced as a lawyer. He died in 1891 and was buried in Franklin.

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