William Stiles Bennet

William Stiles Bennet ( born November 9, 1870 in Port Jervis, New York, † December 1, 1962 in Central Valley, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1905-1911 and 1915-1917 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Augustus W. Bennet was his son.

Career

William Stiles Bennet was born about five years after the end of the civil war in Port Jervis in Orange County and grew up there. He attended community schools and graduated in 1889 at the Port Jervis Academy. Then he went to the Albany Law School in Albany, where he graduated in 1892. After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in his own firm. He was active in 1892 and 1893 as Official Reporters in the Board of Supervisors in Orange County. In the years 1901 and 1902 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was justice of the peace in 1903 at the City Court ( municipal court) of New York City. In 1907 he was a member of the United States Immigration Commission - a position which he held until 1910. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. As a delegate, he took in 1908 and 1916 to the Republican National Conventions in part.

In the congressional elections of 1904 for the 59th Congress Bennet was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis Emanuel Shober on March 4, 1905. He was re-elected twice in a row. In 1910 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1911 the Congress of. He was elected in a by-election on November 2, 1915 at 23 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Joseph A. Goulden. In 1916 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1917 the Congress of.

As Official Parliamentarian he took part in the 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago and as a U.S. delegate in 1923 at the Seventeenth International Congress Against Alcoholism in Copenhagen. He was managing director. In 1936 he ran unsuccessfully for the 75th Congress. Then he took in 1938 as a delegate to participate in the Constituent Assembly of New York. In his candidacy in the special election in 1944 for the 78th Congress, he suffered a defeat. He died on 1 December 1962 in Central Valley. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in the Laurel Grove Cemetery in Port Jervis.