William Stiles Bennet

William Stiles Bennet

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 New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1905 and 1911 and between 1915 and 1917 . Congressman Augustus W. Bennet was his son.

Career

William Stiles Bennet was born and raised in Port Jervis, Orange County , about five years after the end of the Civil War . He attended community schools and graduated from Port Jervis Academy in 1889 . Then he went to Albany Law School in Albany , where he graduated in 1892. After obtaining his license to practice law, he began practicing in his own law firm. He served as the Official Reporter on the Board of Supervisors in Orange County in 1892 and 1893 . In 1901 and 1902 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . In 1903 he was a magistrate at the municipal court of New York City . In 1907 he became a member of the United States Immigration Commission - a position he held until 1910. Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . As a delegate, he took part in the Republican National Conventions in 1908 and 1916 .

In the 1904 congressional elections for the 59th Congress , Bennet was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 17th constituency of New York , where he succeeded Francis Emanuel Shober on March 4, 1905 . He was re-elected twice in a row. In 1910 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1911 Congress of. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in a by-election on November 2, 1915 in the 23rd constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of Joseph A. Goulden . In 1916 he suffered a defeat when he ran for re-election and left Congress after March 3, 1917.

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

Web links

• William Stiles Bennet in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Stiles Bennet in the database of Find a Grave (English)