George Jacob Benner (April 13, 1859 – December 30, 1930) was a Democratic member of the

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from

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

. George J. Benner was born in

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. He attended the public schools and was graduated from Pennsylvania College at

, in 1878. He taught school for several years, studied law, was admitted to the

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, bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Gettysburg. He was a delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1886. Benner was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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. He resumed the practice of law in Gettysburg. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as president judge of the thirty-first judicial district in 1925. He died in Gettysburg in 1930 and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery.

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