Hiram Pitt Bennet

Hiram Pitt Bennet ( born September 2, 1826 in Carthage, Franklin County, Maine, † November 11, 1914 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1865 he represented the Colorado Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1831 Hiram Bennet moved with his parents in the Richland County, Ohio. There he attended both private and public schools including Ohio Wesleyan University. He then worked as a teacher in the northwestern part of the state of Missouri. After studying law and his 1851 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Glenwood (Iowa). In 1852 he became a judge in Iowa.

In 1854, Bennett moved to the Nebraska Territory, where he worked as a lawyer in Nebraska City. At that time he became a member of the newly formed Republican Party. In 1855 he made ​​an unsuccessful appeal against the election of Democrat Bird Beers Chapman for Congress delegates. In 1856, Bennett was a member of the territorial Government Council; In 1858 he was a deputy in the territorial House of Representatives, where he served as Chairman of the house.

In 1859 he moved to Denver later in Colorado Territory. There he worked as a lawyer. After the area had become an official U.S. territory, Bennet was as its first delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. After a re-election he was able to exercise this mandate in Congress between August 19, 1861, and March 3, 1865. In 1864 he gave up another candidacy.

In 1867 he was managing as Secretary of State official in the Colorado Territory. Between 1869 and 1874 Bennet was postmaster in Denver. After the founding of the state of Colorado, he was elected in 1876 in the first Senate of Colorado. Between 1888 and 1895, Bennet was Special Representative of the Government of Colorado with the mission to recover state property that had been sold by mistake. In 1899 he retired to his retirement. Bennet spent his life in Denver, where he died in 1914, and was buried.