Bennett, Robert Foster (1933-2016), served in the United States Senate from 1993 to 2011. Bennett, a Republican, represented Utah.
Bennett was born on Sept. 18, 1933, in Salt Lake City. His father, Wallace F. Bennett, was a U.S. senator from Utah from 1950 to 1974. Robert Bennett received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah in 1957. He worked as a management consultant. He was chief executive officer of the Franklin International Institute (now Franklin Covey Co.), a management consulting firm, from 1984 to 1992.
Bennett was elected to his first term in the U.S. Senate in 1992 and took office in 1993. He was reelected in 1998 and 2004. As a senator, Bennett served on the Senate committees on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Energy and Natural Resources; and Rules. In 2010, at the Utah Republican convention, Bennett lost his bid for the Republican nomination for senator. Bennett died on May 4, 2016.
