Benjamin H. Lucas

Benjamin H. Lucas (July 4, 1879 – ?) was an American minister and state legislator in Illinois. He represented District 1 in Cook County and served from 1917 from 1919. and was left without a father from ten years old. He was educated in public schools. He started work as a child selling newspapers and shining shoes, as an adult he worked as a boot-black, janitor, porter, shipping clerk, postal clerk, state weigher, clerk in the Foreign Corporation Department, fire marshal, deputy state fire marshal and in insurance. She died November 8, 1951.

Lucas was elected into the 50th Illinois General Assembly in 1916, serving in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1917 to 1919. He ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1954 contending as a Republican for the 5th district against the incumbent Democrat Marshall Korshak, but lost.

Lucas was listed in the United States census as living in Illinois in the 1910, 1920, 1940 and 1950 but in the 1930 census his home was listed as Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

He was drafted to the military for both World War I in 1918 and World War II. From the 1930 census onwards he was listed as either a pastor or ministor.