Draft:Granville Bennett (Alabama politician)

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Granville Bennett was a state legislator in Alabama. He represented Sumter County, Alabama in the Alabama House of Representatives during the 1872 and 1874 terms. He and other black members of the state legislature who served during and in the years that followed the Reconstruction era are included on a historical marker. A Republican, he signed onto a "Memorial" addressed to U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

In 1872 he testified he came to Alabama about 1835 at age ten. He said he lived about 3 miles from Livingston, Alabama at Robert Mason's place which had been Masonico. He testified to not being threatened at his home but having spoken with a father whose son was taken from the man's arm's and killed.