William Henry Stanton (congressman)

William Henry Stanton ( born July 28, 1843 in New York City; † March 28, 1900 in Scranton, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In 1876 and 1877 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth William Stanton moved with his parents to Pennsylvania, where they first settled in Carbondale and Archbald. He attended the public schools in Archbald and St. John 's College, near Montrose. After a subsequent law studies and his 1868 was admitted to a lawyer, he began to work in Scranton in this profession. Between 1872 and 1874, he worked as a prosecutor. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1875 and 1876 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania.

Following the resignation of Mr Winthrop Welles Ketcham Stanton was at the due election for the twelfth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 7, 1876. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1876, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1877.

Between 1877 and 1879 William Stanton worked as a judge in his homeland. He then practiced as a lawyer again. During this time he supported the Greenback Party and campaigned for the labor movement. He died on March 28, 1900 in Scranton, where he was also buried.