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Walter James Bennett, 1879-1952. Walter Bennett began his Weather Bureaucareer in 1900 near San Francisco, California. He spent the final 17 years ofhis career as Meteorologist-in-Charge of the Jacksonville, Florida, office until retirement in 1949. His son, Charles E. Bennett, was born in the Weather Bureau office in Canton, NY, and served 44 years as a Florida Congressman.