Bennett, Oliver P.

BENNETT, POTTER

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Date: 3/18/2005 at 10:00:13

IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934
BIOGRAPHIES
STATE SENATORS

OLIVER P. BENNETT, MAPLETON. - Senator from the thirty-fourth district
comprising Crawford, Harrison and Monona counties, was born at Elgin, Illinois,
October 10, 1892. His parents, James L. and Mary Potter Bennett, homesteaded
in Buena Vista county, Iowa, removed to Illinois for three years, returning to
Monona county in 1895. Lived on a farm in Monona county until 1911.
Graduated Mapleton high school 1911, liberal arts Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.,
1911-1912, attended State University of Iowa, 1912-1913. Graduated college of
law, Drake University, 1915. Admitted to the bar of Iowa June, 1915.
Veteran World war. Eleventh district adjutant American Legion 1922-1923, eleventh
district commander American Legion 1924. County attorney, Monona county,
two terms, 1925 to 1929. Engaged in farming and stock raising in Monona county.
Married Helen Kirk of Des Moines, daughter of Professor Sherman Kirk of
Drake University. Has a daughter, Dorothy, and three sons, James Louis, Kirk and
Oliver, Jr. Member Field Artillery Reserve Corps, Phi Alpha Delta legal
fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, Masonic lodge. Has practiced law at Mapleton since
1919. A member of the senate in the forty-third and forty-fourth general
assemblies. A republican.