Ivan L. Bennett

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Short Name:	Ivan L. Bennett
Full Name:	Bennett, Ivan L. (Ivan Loveridge), 1892-1980
Birth Year:	1892
Death Year:	1980

Ivan L. Bennett was born in Ash, N. C. He graduated from Wake Forest College, attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and LaSalle Extension University in Chicago, where he earned a bachelor of laws degree. He began his military career in 1920. He was a chaplain in the United States Army. In 1940 he completed work on a revised Army Navy Hymnal. He later served as chaplain at Southwest Pacific Headquarters, chief chaplain of U. S. Army Forces in the Far East, and chief chaplain of U. S. Forces in the Pacific during World War II. He became of Chief of Army Chaplains in 1952, serving until he retired in 1954. After his retirement he was active in the Washington City Bible Society and the American Bible Society.

Dianne Shapiro, from obituary "Maj. Gen. Ivan Bennett, Chief of Army Chaplains," Washington Post, 6-18-1980

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