Carville Benson

Carville Benson

Carville Dickinson Benson (born August 24, 1872 in Halethorpe , Baltimore County , Maryland , †  February 8, 1929 in Baltimore , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1918 and 1921 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Carville Benson attended the public schools in Baltimore and studied afterwards until 1890 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem ( Pennsylvania ). After a subsequent law degree at Baltimore University and his admission as a lawyer in 1893, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1904 and 1910 and again in 1918 he was a member of the Maryland House of Representatives , of which he was President in 1906. From 1912 to 1914 he was a member of the State Senate .

After the death of Representative Joshua Talbott , Benson was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the second seat of Maryland , where he took up his new mandate on November 5, 1918. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1921 . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 . It was about the ban on trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage .

In 1920, Carville Benson was not re-elected. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced again as a lawyer in Baltimore. Since 1924 he was the Maryland State Insurance Commissioner. He died on February 8, 1929 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Carville Benson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Carville Benson in the database of Find a Grave (English)