Benton is a town in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States.

Senator from Missouri, who had served under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek Campaign.

During the steamboat era, it was a major trading stop along the Alabama River.

Maull's son, Edward, auctioned off lots in 1855, that were incorporated into the town.

The earliest year any population figures were returned by the U.S. Census for the area (below the county level) was in 1870, when Benton Beat (then one of ten divisions in Lowndes County) returned 2,627 residents, the majority of whom were newly emancipated blacks.

Out of Lowndes County's seven incorporated communities, it is one of only two with a white majority (as of 2000 and 2010), Lowndesboro being the other.