Alston G. Dayton

Alston Gordon Dayton ( born October 18, 1857 in Philippi, Barbour County, Virginia; † 30 July 1920 in Battle Creek, Michigan) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1895 and 1905 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alston Dayton was born 1857 in Philippi, which at that time was still part of Virginia and later became part of the company founded in 1863 state of West Virginia. He attended the common schools and then studied until 1878 at West Virginia University in Morgantown. After studying law and its made ​​in 1878 admitted to the bar he began in Philippi to work in his new profession. In 1879, he was district attorney in Upshur County. Between 1882 and 1886 he held the same job in Barbour County.

Dayton was a member of the Republican Party and was elected in 1894 as the candidate in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1895 on the succession of Democrat William L. Wilson. After five elections he could remain until his resignation on March 16, 1905 in Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898, the Philippines came by, among others, under American sovereignty. Even the former Kingdom of Hawaii was then part of the United States.

Dayton's resignation in March 1905 took place just days after the start of a new legislature. The occasion was his appointment as a judge at the Federal District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. This office he held until his death in 1920 in Battle Creek ( Michigan). Dayton was buried in his native Philippines.

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