Benjamin S. Paulen

Infobox Governor
name= Benjamin S. Paulen


caption=
order=23^rd
office= Governor of Kansas
term_start= January 12, 1925
term_end= January 14, 1929
lieutenant= De Lanson Alson Newton Chase
predecessor= Jonathan M. Davis
successor= Clyde M. Reed
birth_date= July 14, 1869
birth_place= DeWitt County, Illinois
death_date= death date and age|1961|07|11|1869|07|14
death_place= Fredonia, Kansas
spouse= Barbara Ellis
profession= hardware clerk, banker, politician
party= Republican
religion= Christian Science
footnotes=

Benjamin "Ben" Sanford Paulen (July 14, 1869 - July 11, 1961) was twenty-third Governor of Kansas.

Paulen was born in DeWitt County, Illinois to Jacob Walter and Lucy Bell (Johnson) Paulen. The family moved to Wilson County, Kansas in late 1869 when he was less than six months old.

Paulen died in 1961 in Fredonia, Kansas and is buried in Fredonia Cemetery.

Trivia

* Was a member of the state's constitutional revision committee in 1957.
* The Ben S. Paulen Elementary School in Fredonia was named in his honor in 1961.

References

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6635745 Find-A-Grave profile for Benjamin S. Paulen]