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| Name | Risden T. Bennett |
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Wadesboro, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
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June 18, 1840
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| Died | July 21, 1913
(73 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | BENNETT, Risden Tyler, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., June 18, 1840; attended the common schools and Anson Institute; was graduated from Cumberland University and from Lebanon Law School, Tennessee, in 1859; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private on April 30, 1861, and left the service as colonel of the Fourteenth North Carolina Troops, having been wounded on three occasions; solicitor of Anson County in 1866 and 1867; member of the State house of representatives 1872-1874; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875.
Judge of the superior court 1880-1882.
U.S. Representative (D-NC) 1883-1887; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Forty-ninth Congress).
Engaged in the practice of law in Wadesboro, N.C., and died there July 21, 1913; interment in the family cemetery near Wadesboro, N.C.
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