Bentsen took his mate’s exam in 1890 and then worked on Arctic Sea voyages. When Fridtjof Nansen’s Fram expedition arrived in Tromsø on the way to the Siberian coast, Bentsen was spontaneously hired to help sail as far as the Yugor Strait.
Lloyd Bentsen was an American Democratic politician who was a longtime U.S. senator (1971–93) before serving as secretary of the treasury (1993–94) in the presidential administration of Bill Clinton.
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (February 11, 1921 – May 23, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 69th United States secretary of the treasury under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994.