A lithium miner on Rigel XII in 2266 and partner of Ben Childress, who took one of Harry Mudd's women as a wife in return for the crystals the Enterprise desperately needed.
Benton is one of the three miners living on Rigel XII in the episode Mudd's Women, alongside the settlement's leader Ben Childress and their colleague Gossett.
Rich in lithium crystals but starved of company, the miners are easy marks for Harry Mudd, who promises them wives if they will force Kirk to release him. Benton is present when Childress lays down those terms to the captain while the Enterprise's orbit decays on failing power.
In the miners' hut he competes with Gossett for the attention of Ruth Bonaventure and Magda Kovacs, and the evening breaks down into a brawl. He is said to have married one of the two by subspace radio, and nothing shows him changing his mind once the Venus drug wears off. He was played by Seamon Glass.