Stanton J. Peelle

Stanton Judkins Peelle (* February 11, 1843 in Richmond, Indiana, † September 4, 1928 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1881 and 1884 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stanton Peelle attended the public schools of his home and then the Winchester Seminary. During the Civil War he served in a volunteer unit from Indiana in the army of the Union. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1866 admitted to the bar he began in Winchester to work in this profession. Since 1869 he lived in Indianapolis. In the years 1872 and 1873 he was district attorney in the local Marion County.

Politically, Peelle member of the Republican Party. From 1877 to 1879 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In the congressional elections of 1880 he was elected the seventh election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Gilbert De La Matyr on March 4, 1881. In 1882 he was re-elected. His opponent in this election, William E. English, but appealed against the election results a complaint. After this had been upheld, had Peelle on May 22, 1884 his mandate cede to English.

In 1892, Stanton was Peelle delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, was nominated to the President Benjamin Harrison for re-election. Between 1892 and 1913 he was a federal judge on the Court of Claims, which he chaired in succession to Charles C. Nott since 20 December 1905. From 1901 to 1911 Peelle was also professor of law at George Washington University. Between 1906 and 1925 he was a trustee of Howard University in the capital Washington. From 1910 to 1925 he was also a board member of the Washington College of Law. Stanton Peelle lived until his death on September 4, 1928 in Washington.

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