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Ralph E. Benson
Greene County
Republican 48th Senatorial District Carroll, Greene and Sac Counties. Farmer and livestock feeder. Born on Ida county farm, 1907, eldest of four children in Anton Benson family. Married Helen Mae Custer of Jefferson, 1928; one son, Donald. Attended Ida Grove high school and Iowa State College of Engineering, completing aeronautics course, 1931. Returned in 1941 and studied agricultural engineering. 1931-1933, employed by Northwestern Bell Telephone company. Since then has lived on Greene county farm. Charter member Greene county R.E.A., Cattle Feeders Ass'n, Conservation league and Iowa Flying Farmers. Masonic lodge. Baptist church and Greene County Farm Bureau. 1938, elected to Iowa Senate. 1941, appointed chairman Iowa State Aeronautics committee. Named to Who's Who of America's Young Men and International Who's Who.
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