Family and Influence
McMillin married Marie Childress Brown, the daughter of Governor John C. Brown, in 1886. They had a son before she died the following year. In 1888, McMillin married Lucille Foster, a noted women's suffragist and president of the Tennessee Federation of Women's Clubs. She served as a civil service commissioner under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940s. She and McMillin had one daughter.
McMillin's brother, Joseph, was a teacher at the Montvale Academy in Celina. One of his students was future Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Hull later recalled Benton McMillin as one of his political mentors.
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