Edmund H. Bennett

Edmund Hatch Bennett
1st Mayor of
Taunton, Massachusetts[3]
In office
January 2, 1865[1][2] – June 19, 1867[4]
Preceded byAllen Presbrey, Esq.,
(Chairman of the Taunton, Massachusetts
Board of Selectmen)[2]
Succeeded byStephen H. Rhodes[4]
Personal details
Born(1824-04-06)April 6, 1824
Manchester, Vermont[3]
DiedJanuary 2, 1898(1898-01-02) (aged 73)[3]
Boston, Massachusetts[3]
NationalityAmerican
Political partyWhig Party, Republican Party
Spouse
Sally Crocker
(m. 1853)
ChildrenCaroline, Edmund Neville, Samuel and Mary
Alma materUniversity of Vermont
ProfessionAttorney
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Edmund Hatch Bennett (April 6, 1824 – January 2, 1898) was an American lawyer, judge, the first Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts, and Dean of Boston University School of Law.[5]

  1. ^ City of Taunton (1865), The City Charter, and Address of Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, Mayor of Taunton: upon the First Inauguration of the City Government, January 2, 1865, Taunton, Massachusetts: Taunton Daily Gazette, p. 1
  2. ^ a b City of Taunton (1865), The City Charter, and Address of Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, Mayor of Taunton: upon the First Inauguration of the City Government, January 2, 1865, Taunton, Massachusetts: Taunton Daily Gazette, p. 21
  3. ^ a b c d "Death List of a Day: Edmund H. Bennett". The New York Times. January 3, 1898. p. 7. Retrieved July 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1883), History of Bristol County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & Co., p. 820
  5. ^ Ross Clifford, Leading Lawyers' Case for the Resurrection, Edmonton, Canada: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology & Public Policy, 1996, p.15.