1. Milton Bennion was an American educator and a university and educational administrator.
10 Facts About Milton Bennion
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From 1897 to 1900, Bennion was the president of the Branch Normal School, an institution that eventually developed into Southern Utah University.
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Between 1920 and 1926 Milton Bennion was the chairman of the National Council on Character Education for the National Education Association.
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Milton Bennion was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in education from the University of Utah in 1931.
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Milton Bennion was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and from 1943 to 1949 he was the sixth general superintendent of the church's Deseret Sunday School Union.
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Milton Bennion's assistants were George R Hill and A Hamer Reiser.
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Bennion succeeded George D Pyper in this position; Bennion had been Pyper's first assistant in the general Sunday School superintendency since 1934.
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Milton Bennion was a member of the Sunday School general board for 40 years, beginning in 1909.
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Milton Bennion served as a church missionary to New Zealand from 1889 to 1892.
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In 1898, Milton Bennion married Cora Lindsay in the Salt Lake Temple.