Marion Tinsley Bennett

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Marion Tinsley Bennett (1943)

Marion Tinsley Bennett (born June 6, 1914 in Buffalo , Dallas County , Missouri , †  September 6, 2000 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1943 and 1949 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Career

Marion Bennett was the son of Congressman Philip Allen Bennett (1881–1942). He attended public schools in Buffalo, Jefferson City, and Springfield . He then studied until 1935 at Southwest Missouri State College in Springfield. After a subsequent law degree at the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis and his license to practice law in 1938, he began to work in this profession in Springfield. Since January 3, 1941, he was secretary to his father, who took up his mandate in Congress on that day . Politically, both Bennetts belonged to the Republican Party . Between 1938 and 1942, Marion Bennett was a board member of his party in Greene County . From 1938 to 1948 he took part as a delegate at all regional party conventions in Missouri.

After his father's death, Bennett was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due for the by-election for the sixth seat of Missouri , where he took up his new mandate on January 12, 1943. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1949. This time was determined by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1945 he was part of a ten-member congress delegation who, at the invitation of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, visited the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in order to get an idea of ​​the crimes committed there.

In 1948 Bennett was defeated by the Democrat George H. Christopher . Until 1974 he was a reserve colonel in the United States Air Force . Between 1949 and 1972, Marion Bennett was federal commissioner at the Court of Claims in Washington. From 1972 to 1982 he was a judge at this court. He then acted as a judge at the Federal Court of Appeal for the Federal District Court until 1987 . He then retired. Marion Bennett died on September 6, 2000 in Alexandria and was buried in Springfield.

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SURNAME Bennett, Marion Tinsley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2000
Place of death Alexandria , Virginia