Early Years
Bentley, the only child of Alvin M. Bentley, Jr., and Helen Webb Bentley, was born in Portland, Maine only three months before his father died serving in France during World War I. Although fatherless, Bentley was heir to a family fortune, from his grandfather who founded the Owosso Manufacturing Company.
He graduated in 1934 from Southern Pines High School in Southern Pines, North Carolina and in 1936 from Asheville Prep School in Asheville, North Carolina. He received his bachelor's degree in 1940 from the University of Michigan and attended Turner’s Diplomatic School, Washington, D.C., to qualify for the U.S. diplomatic service.
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