{{Short description|Ukrainian-American inventor (1901–1972)}} {{Infobox person | name = Benny Bargen | image = | alt = | caption = | native_name_lang = uk | native_name = {{nobold|Бернард Барген}} | birth_name = Bernhard Bargen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|12|10}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|11|14|1901|12|10}} | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Inventor, economics professor }}
'''Bernhard Bargen'''{{efn|{{langx|uk|Бернард Барген|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Bernard Barhen}}}}}} (10 December 1901 – 14 November 1972) was a Ukrainian-American inventor and economics professor at Bethel College (Kansas).
Bargen was infected with polio as an infant, and for the remainder of his life his legs were mostly paralyzed as a result.
A Mennonite pacifist, Bargen kept his income deliberately low so that he would not pay income taxes that were destined for military spending. Later he joined the Peacemakers war tax resistance movement that emerged in 1948.<ref>{{cite book|last=McMurry|first=Glenn D.|editor-last=McMurry|editor-first=Darlene|date=1995|title=The Autobiography of an Unimportant Important Man|chapter=Dorm Life & My Jobs|url=http://www.gregssandbox.com/mcmurry/sec04/04-abeth.htm}}</ref>
Bargen was involved for a time with the Woodcrest Bruderhof Community.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bargen|first=Bernhard|title=Three Weeks in a Bruderhof: A Christian Community Is Born|journal=Mennonite Life|date=January 1956|url=https://ml.bethelks.edu/store/ml/files/1956jan.pdf|access-date=2016-03-02|archive-date=2016-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005085722/https://ml.bethelks.edu/store/ml/files/1956jan.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Bargen returned at the end of his life to the Bruderhof Community at New Meadow Run in Farmington, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book|last=Habegger|first=Loris|chapter=Bargen, Bernhard 'Benny' (1901–1972)|title=Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online|date=1987|url=http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bargen,_Bernhard_%22Benny%22_(1901-1972)&oldid=127125}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bargenm Benny}} Category:American people of Ukrainian descent Category:American tax resisters Category:1901 births Category:1972 deaths