Philip Allen Bennett

Philip Allen Bennett was a Republican politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Missouris 6th District during the 77th Congress. Prior to that Bennett was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and served in the Missouri Senate.

Philip A. Bennett was born near Buffalo, Missouri to Marion F. and Mary Jane Bennett, the eighth of fourteen children. Following his graduation from Buffalo High School Bennett attended Springfield Normal and Business College , earning his degree in 1902. He taught two years in Missouri public schools and worked for the Frisco Railroad before purchasing the Buffalo Reflex newspaper in 1904. Bennett would serve as editor and publisher of the Reflex until 1921 when he entered politics fulltime. Philip Bennett married Mary B. Tinsley in 1912 and they would have two children, a son and a daughter. Son Marion Tinsley Bennett would follow in his fathers footsteps as a Missouri politician. Philip Bennett died in Washington D.C. on December 7, 1942 shortly before the beginning of his second term in Congress. He is buried in Hazelwood Cemetery, Springfield, Missouri.

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