Lemuel Benton (1754 – May 18, 1818) was an 18th-century American slaveholder, planter and politician from Darlington County, South Carolina.
In his youth, he moved to what is now known as Darlington County, South Carolina.
In 1787, he was escheator of Cheraw District (composed of what is now Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlboro Counties).
He was a delegate to the State convention at Charleston that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788.
He then served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention at Columbia in 1790 He was elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1793, to March 3, 1799.