Benton Franklin Jensen (December 16 1892 – February 5 1970) served thirteen consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Iowa’s 7th congressional district in the southwestern corner of the state. While on the floor of the U.S. House on March 1 1954 he was one of five Congressmen wounded by gunfire from a Puerto Rican Nationalists firing from a visitors’ gallery.
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