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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 5/20/1905
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 16 (1876)
Home County: Louisa
Robert E. Benton
Louisa County

HON. ROBERT E. BENTON.

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to draft resolutions commemorating the life and public services of the Hon. Robert E. Benton of Louisa county, Iowa, respectfully submit the following report:

WHEREAS, The Hon. Robert E. Benton, an honored member of this House in the Sixteenth General Assembly, departed this life on the 20th day of May, 1905, at Morning Sun, Iowa, and,

WHEREAS, The life and character of the deceased were such as to entitle him to our respect and esteem, and his services to the State were of such a character as to command the confidence and gratitude of his felow citizens; therefore be it

Resolved, That in his death the State has lost an honorable and conscientious citizen, and the community in which he lived an upright and trusted member who had suffered the inconveniences of pioneer life.

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered at length in the Journal of the House, and the chief clerk of the House be instructed to send an engrossed copy of the same to the Morning Sun News-Herald.

E. L. MCCLURKIN,

C. A. KENNEDY,

JOHN S. STANBERY,

Committee

Adopted.

Sources:
House District 28
Committees
16th GA (1876)
Legislation Sponsored
16th GA (1876)