Richard H. Stanton

Richard Henry Stanton ( born September 9, 1812 in Alexandria, Virginia; † March 20, 1891 in Maysville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1855 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Stanton visited by preschool the Alexandria Academy. After a subsequent law degree in 1835 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Maysville to work in this profession. Between 1835 and 1842 he also published the newspaper " Maysville Monitor". He was also temporarily postmaster in Maysville. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1848, Stanton was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Pollard Gaines of the Whig party on March 4, 1849. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 three legislative periods. From 1849 to 1853 he was Chairman of the Committee for the administration of public property; 1853 to 1855 he directed the Election Committee. His time in Congress was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In the elections of 1854 Stanton lost to Samuel F. Swope of the American Party. From 1858 to 1861 he worked as a prosecutor. In 1868, Stanton was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, on the Horatio Seymour was nominated as a presidential candidate. From 1868 to 1874 he was district judge in Kentucky; thereafter he practiced until 1885 as a private lawyer. Subsequently, Richard Stanton moved back to his retirement. He died on 20 March 1891 in Maysville.

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