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Show INDIANA STATESMAN-CALLED. Had Been Prominent Figure in Congress Con-gress for Years. Washington. Benjamin F. Shively, senior senator from Indiana and for years a prominent figure in congress, died March 14 at a hospital here. He had been ill many months from a complication of diseases and for more than a month had been unable to perform per-form actively his official duties. He was 58 years of age. Benjamin Franklin Shively was born on a farm in St. Joseph county, Indiana, on March 20, 1857, the son of the Rev. Joel Shively, a preacher. During three terms in the house and lle seven years he had been in the senate, Senator Shively had devoted bis activities particularly to foreign affairs and tariff legislation. At the time of his death he was ranking Democratic member of the foreign relations re-lations committee, of which he had been acting chairman during the critical crit-ical period preceding and following the American occupation of Vera Cruz. |