Representative Tommy Benton

Secretary Education

HD 31 (R - Jefferson)

Family

•Resident: Jackson County – 6th Generation

•Married: wife Karen Compton Benton

•Children: Leigh Ann Weaver and husband, Sammy; Thomas H. Benton, Jr.; Jeff Farrell and wife Gina, Zack Evans, and one grandchild, Samuel Thomas Weaver; Parents: Thomas Frazer Benton and Matilda Housch Benton



Education

•Graduate: Commerce High School, 1968

•Graduate: West Georgia College, 1972, AB History

•Graduate: Brenau College, 1983, Med Middle School Education



Occupation

•Jackson County Board of Education, 1974-2004, retired; Maysville Elementary School – 16 years; Jackson County Middle – 6 years; East Jackson Middle School – 8 years; (GA History & Gov’t., American History, Beta Club Sponsor, 1998-2004)

•McDonald Ace Hardware, Commerce, 1975-present (part time)



Religion

•Methodist: First United Methodist Church, Commerce, Member 44 years



Public Service

•Jefferson historic Preservation Commission, 1994-2004

•Hunter Safety Instructor – 1984- present

•Treasurer, Jackson County Bicentennial Committee, 1996



Organizations

•National Rifle Association – Life Member

•Sons of Confederate Veterans – Life Member

•Military Order of the Stars and Bars

•Sons of the American Revolution – Gainesville Chapter

•Jackson County Historical Society

•Jackson County Retired Teachers Association