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Alvin Morell Bentley (Alvin Morell Bentley III) was born on 30 August, 1918 in Portland, Maine, U.S., is an American politician (1918–1969). Discover Alvin Morell Bentley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?

Popular As Alvin Morell Bentley III
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Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 30 August, 1918
Birthday 30 August
Birthplace Portland, Maine, U.S.
Date of death 10 April, 1969
Died Place Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1918

Alvin Morell Bentley III (August 30, 1918 – April 10, 1969) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

1934

He graduated in 1934 from Southern Pines High School in Southern Pines, North Carolina, and in 1936 from Asheville Prep School in Asheville, North Carolina.

1940

He received his bachelor's degree in 1940 from the University of Michigan and attended Turner's Diplomatic School, Washington, D.C., to qualify for the U.S. diplomatic service.

1942

He served as vice consul and secretary with the United States Foreign Service, serving in Mexico (1942–1944), Colombia (1945–1946), Hungary (1947–1949), and Italy (1949–1950).

1950

He returned to Washington, D.C., on March 15, 1950, for work in the State Department.

Disagreeing with the Truman administration's foreign policy, Bentley resigned from the diplomatic service in 1950 and returned to live in Owosso, Michigan.

He was a delegate to Republican State conventions in 1950, 1951, and 1952.

1952

He was vice president of Lake Huron Broadcasting Company, Saginaw, Michigan, starting in 1952, and a director of Mitchell-Bentley Corporation.

In 1952, Bentley defeated the incumbent Republican U.S. Representative Fred L. Crawford in the primary election for Michigan's 8th congressional district and went on to win in the 1952 general election.

1953

As four-term a U.S. representative from 1953 to 1961, he made national headlines as one of the wounded of the 1954 United States Capitol shooting.

Bentley, the only child of Alvin M. Bentley, Jr., and Helen Webb Bentley, was born in Portland, Maine, only three months before his father died serving in France during World War I.

Although fatherless, Bentley was heir to a family fortune, from his grandfather who founded the Owosso Manufacturing Company.

Bentley was elected to the Eighty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1961.

1954

Bentley was one of five Representatives shot in the March 1, 1954 United States Capitol shooting, when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the visitors' balcony into the chamber of the United States House of Representatives.

Bentley was shot in the chest and abdomen but survived.

1957

Bentley voted present on the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

1960

He was not a candidate for re-nomination in 1960, instead running for a seat in the United States Senate and losing to Democratic incumbent Patrick V. McNamara in the 1960 general election.

Alvin M. Bentley served on the Board of Directors for the National Conference on Citizenship in 1960.

While continuing to maintain offices in Washington, D.C., Bentley commuted by air to Ann Arbor to attend classes.

In the mid-1960s, Bentley served as chairman of the Michigan Freedom from Hunger Council, a humanitarian organization set up to gather, interpret, and disseminate information about hunger problems in the world, especially in the Western Hemisphere.

1961

From 1961 to 1962, Bentley was a delegate from the 15th Senatorial District to the Michigan State Constitutional Convention, which produced the Michigan state constitution adopted in 1963.

Also, after leaving Congress in 1961, he had returned to the University of Michigan as a graduate student in the History department.

In 1961, Bentley established the Alvin M. Bentley Foundation to support educational, scientific, and charitable projects.

Through the foundation, Bentley continues to foster academic excellence in the state of Michigan.

1962

In 1962, Bentley again ran for the U.S. House for a one-term, at-large seat created as a result of the 1960 U.S. Census, but he lost in the general election to Democrat Neil Staebler.

He continued public service by receiving appointments to education-related positions in the state.

1963

He received an M.A. degree in 1963.

1964

Bentley also chaired the Michigan branch of the Partners of the Alliance, an organization that had begun nationally in 1964, to act as a channel through which civic clubs, unions, business and professional groups, schools, and individuals could work directly with groups, villages, or areas in Latin America to improve the way of life in that particular area.

The objective was not charity, but the promotion of self-help programs.

The State of Michigan took British Honduras (Belize) as its partner.

1966

In 1966, while pursuing a doctoral degree, Governor George W. Romney appointed him to the board of regents of the University of Michigan.

Bentley died, aged 50, while on vacation in Tucson, Arizona, of an "inflammation affecting the central nervous system".

Bentley had been confined at a wheelchair for two years after "corrective surgery" when his condition suddenly worsened.

He is interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Owosso, Michigan.

1967

In 1967, he contributed money to the University of Michigan to establish an endowed professorship in the Department of History in memory of his parents.

1969

He died on April 10, 1969 at the age of 50.

1971

In 1971, his widow, Arvella D. Bentley, gave a generous donation to the University of Michigan's "Michigan Historical Collections", enabling it to construct a new building which was subsequently renamed the Bentley Historical Library.

1983

In 1983, the foundation established the Bentley Scholarships at the University of Michigan for Michigan residents who have demonstrated academic excellence and promise.

The foundation also sponsors Operation Bentley, "a week-long intensive academic program held at Albion College for high school juniors who have been selected to participate in a rigorous and rewarding study of local, state, and national politics."