Benton McMillin

Benton McMillin

Benton McMillin (September 11, 1845ndash January 8, 1933) was governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee from 1899 to 1903. A Democrat, he was a native of Kentucky and an attorney.

McMillin was a member of the state legislature from 1875 to 1877, and served in the United States Congress from 1879 until his election as governor in November, 1898. He was governor during the settlement of a long-running boundary dispute between Tennessee and Virginia. He pushed for the adoption of uniform textbooks in the state public schools and a tax increase to support public high schools. Re-elected in 1900, he subsequently entered the insurance business at the end of his second term.

McMillin later was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as U.S. Minister to Peru from 1913 to 1919, and as Minister to Guatemala from 1919 to 1923.

He advocated the introduction of an income tax while serving in Congress and in a later article in the Saturday Evening Post.Fact|date=November 2007

References

Tennessee Encyclopedia, Benton McMillin [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=M054]
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