Wallace F. Bennett

Wallace Foster Bennett ( born November 13, 1898 in Salt Lake City, Utah, † December 19, 1993 ibid ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Utah in the U.S. Senate.

After the public school visit Bennett began studying at the University of Utah. This he interrupted to fight as an infantry lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the First World War. After returning from the war he continued his studies in Salt Lake City and graduated from there in 1919. Initially it was subsequently director of a high school, later owner of a paint factory. In 1949 he was president of the National Association of Manufacturers, an advocacy organization of businessmen.

In 1950, the Republicans Bennett applied for one of the two seats of Utah in the U.S. Senate. He decided the selection against the incumbent for 18 years Senator Elbert D. Thomas for himself and was re-elected three times, before he decided not to run, and his office on December 20, 1974 resigned. He dropped out before the end of his final term in order to allow his elected successor already Jake Garn an earlier entry.

As yarn again left the Senate in 1992, Bennett's son Robert was elected as his successor. The following year, Wallace Bennett died in his hometown of Salt Lake City.

The Mormon Bennett also worked as a writer of spiritual songs for his religious community. So comes the text of the 1985 published in a hymn book hymn of praise God of Power, God of Right of him. He was also author of Faith and Freedom: The Pillars of American Democracy (published in 1950) and Why I Am A Mormon ( 1958).