Anson County, NC - Risden T. Bennett, 1840-

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Encyclopedia of American Biography
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth 
Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
page 105

BENNETT, RISDEN T., was born June 18, 1840, in Anson County, N. C. He 
entered the Confederate Army as a private April 30, 1861, and rose 
through the several grades to the colonelcy of the Fourteenth North 
Carolina Troops. He was solicitor of Anson County in 1866-67; was a 
member of the legislature of North Carolina in 1872, and delegate to 
the Constitutional Convention of the state in 1875. He was judge of the 
Superior Court in 1880, and resigned to accept the nomination for 
Congress as Congressman at large from North Carolina; and was elected 
to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
Biographies
page 841

BENNETT, Risden Tyler, a Representative from North Carolina; born in 
Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., June 18, 1840; attended the common 
schools and Anson Institute; was graduated from Cumberland University 
and from Lebanon Law School, Tennessee, in 1859; during the Civil War 
enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private on April 30, 1861, and 
left the service as colonel of the Fourteenth North Carolina Troops, 
having been wounded on three occasions; solicitor of Anson County in 
1866 and 1867; member of the State House of Representatives 1872-1874; 
delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1875; judge of the 
Superior Court from 1880 until his resignation in 1882; elected as a 
Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-
March 3, 1887); engaged in the practice of law in Wadesboro, N.C., and 
died there July 21, 1913; interment in the family cemetery near 
Wadesboro, N.C.