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1921
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William Covington Benton, LL.B.
Winchester, Kentucky
Sigma Chi; A.B. Kentucky Wesleyan; Graduate United States Military Academy, 1918.
He is Lord Chesterfield of the class Agreeable and kind; He cares not for the fairer sex, They’re banished from his mind.
-The Kentuckian, 1921
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William Covington Benton (March 2, 1897 - July 28, 1954) was born in Winchester, Kentucky to James Milton Benton and Elizabeth Barrett Smith. His father was a lawyer in Winchester. Benton moved to Denver, Colorado after graduating from the University of Kentucky. He practiced law with his father-in-law, Christopher Field Clay, in the firm of Clay & Benton. Benton married Katherine Clay in 1924.
