Barry W. Benson | |
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4th Secretary of State of Mississippi | |
In office January 1835 – June 11, 1839 | |
Governor | Hiram Runnels John A. Quitman Charles Lynch Alexander G. McNutt |
Preceded by | D. C. Dickson |
Succeeded by | David Dickson Thomas B. Woodward |
Personal details | |
Born | 1811 or 1812 Mississippi |
Died | (aged 27) Columbus, Mississippi |
Political party | Democrat |
Barry W. Benson (1811/1812 – June 11, 1839) was the Mississippi Secretary of State from 1835 to 1839. He was a Democrat.[1]
Barry W. Benson was born in Mississippi.[2] His father was a Mississippi pioneer.[2] Barry W. Benson was elected to the office of the Secretary of State of Mississippi in January 1835.[3][4][5] He was re-elected to the office in 1837.[5][6] At the time of his death, he was the incumbent office holder as well as the Democratic candidate for re-election.[1][7][8]
Benson died of pulmonary tuberculosis[9] at the age of 27 on June 11, 1839, at the home of his father-in-law in Columbus, Mississippi, and was survived by his mother and his widow.[10][5][1][11][9] He had recently gone to Cuba to try to improve his lung condition.[12] In early July 1839, Thomas B. Woodward of Yazoo County was appointed by Governor Alexander McNutt to fill in the vacancy caused by Benson's death.[13][14]
Benson married the eldest daughter of Major Richard Barry.[15] She remarried after Benson's death.[15]