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Benjamin Bennet (October 31, 1764 – October 8, 1840) was a slave owner and
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from
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. Born in
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in the
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, Bennet attended the common schools. He studied theology, was ordained as a minister in
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in 1793, and served as pastor of a
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church in that city. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits. Bennet was elected as a
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to the Fourteenth and
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(March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1819). After his time in office, he resumed agricultural pursuits. He died on his farm near Middletown Township on October 8, 1840, and was interred in the Baptist Cemetery,
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bennet, Benjamin 1764 births 1840 deaths People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania People from Middletown Township, New Jersey 18th-century Baptist ministers from the United States Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey