Bennet, Benjamin (2)

Bennet, Benjamin a Baptist minister, was born in New Jersey in 1762. He received a public school education, studied theology, and was ordained as a minister of the Gospel at Middletown, N. J. Subsequently he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the Fourteenth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fifteenth Congress. His term of service continued from Jan. 15, 1816, to March 3, 1819. His death took place at Middletown, Oct. 8, 1840. See Poore, Congressional Directory, p. 280. (J. C. S.)