About Benjamin F. Shields
Lived 1881 – 1969 (aged 87–88). Benjamin F. Shields was an American physician.
Benjamin F. Shields (January 2, 1881 – March 11, 1969) was an American politician and physician who served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1940 to 1942.
Early life and education Shields was born on January 2, 1881, in Nelson County, Kentucky, to Elizabeth ( Green) and Benjamin F. Shields. He was educated at Kentucky University and Hospital Collage of Medicine in Louisville, and was married to Ardia May Milligan on April 17, 1919.
Death He died in 1969 at Kings's Daughters Hospital in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
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