William B. Cravens

William Ben Cravens (January 17, 1872 – January 13, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, father of William Fadjo Cravens and cousin of Jordan Edgar Cravens.

Cravens was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, attended the common schools, Louisville Military Academy in Kentucky, and Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. He graduated from the law department of the University of Missouri in 1893. He was admitted to the Arkansas bar the same year and commenced practice in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was City attorney of Fort Smith from 1898 until 1902, and the prosecuting attorney for the twelfth judicial district of Arkansas from 1902 until 1908.

Cravens was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907 until March 3, 1913. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress. After serving in Congress he resumed the practice of law.

Cravens was elected to the Seventy-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1939. He was interred in Oak Cemetery, Fort Smith, Arkansas.