Alvin Morell Bentley
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 8th district |
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In office January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1961 |
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| Preceded by | Fred L. Crawford |
| Succeeded by | James Harvey |
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Alvin Morell Bentley III August 30, 1918 Portland, Maine |
| Died | April 10, 1969 (aged 50) Tucson, Arizona |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Alvin Morell Bentley III (August 30, 1918 – April 10, 1969) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. As a U.S. representative, he made national headlines as one of the wounded of the 1954 U.S. Capitol shootings.
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.
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. 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.
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). 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. He was vice president of Lake Huron Broadcasting Company, Saginaw, Michigan, starting in 1952, and a director of Mitchell-Bentley Corporation.
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