Hiram Pitt Bennet (September 2, 1826 – November 11, 1914) was a Congressional delegate from the Territory of Colorado and Colorado Secretary of State[1] Bennet was born in Carthage, Maine, and moved to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Richland County in 1831.

He unsuccessfully contested in 1855 as a Republican the election of Bird B. Chapman to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Bennet moved to Denver, Colorado in 1859 and continued the practice of law.

Upon the admission of the Territory to representation, Bennet was elected as a Conservative Republican, a Delegate to the Thirty-seventh Congress.

[2][4] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress