William Daniel Brayton

William Daniel Brayton ( born November 6, 1815 in Warwick, Rhode Iceland, † June 30, 1887 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Brayton attended Kent Academy in East Greenwich and Kingston Academy. He then studied for two years at Brown University in Providence. After school and university Brayton worked in retail. He was also a member of the militia of Rhode Iceland and in 1842 during the Dorr Rebellion, in which it came to election law changes, Major. In 1844, Brayton was a member of the Town Council of Warwick.

1841 and 1851 he was selected in each case in the House of Representatives of Rhode Iceland; 1848 and 1853 he made ​​the move into the state Senate. Then he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. As the candidate he was in 1856 elected in the second district of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Benjamin Babock Thurston on March 4, 1857. After a re-election in 1858 Brayton was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. From 1859 to 1861 he was chairman of the committee to monitor the expenditure on state property. In the elections of 1860 Brayton lost to George H. Browne.

Between 1862 and 1871 led Brayton the tax authorities in the second Financial District of Rhode Iceland. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated to the President Ulysses S. Grant for a second term. He then worked as a department manager in the postal administration of the city of Providence. There, William Brayton died in June 1887.