Benjamin Stanton

Benjamin Stanton
in 35th Congress
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 4th district
In office March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853
Preceded by	Moses Bledso Corwin
Succeeded by	Matthias H. Nichols
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th district
In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1861
Preceded by	Moses Bledso Corwin
Succeeded by	Samuel Shellabarger
6th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
In office January 13, 1862 – January 11, 1864
Governor	David Tod
Preceded by	Robert C. Kirk
Succeeded by	Charles Anderson
Member of the Ohio Senate from the Champaign, Logan and Union Counties district
In office December 6, 1841 – December 3, 1843
Preceded by	Dowty Utter
Succeeded by	John Gabriel, Jr.
Personal details
Born	(1809-06-04)June 4, 1809 Mount Pleasant, Ohio
Died	June 2, 1872(1872-06-02) (aged 62) Wheeling, West Virginia
Resting place	Greenwood Cemetery
Political party	Whig, Opposition, Republican

Benjamin Stanton (June 4, 1809 – June 2, 1872) was an American politician who served as sixth Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1862 to 1864.

Biography

Born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Stanton pursued academic studies, and learned the tailor's trade. Stanton studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834, and began practicing law in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Career

Stanton served as a member of the Ohio Senate from 1841 to 1843, and as delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1850.

Stanton was elected as a U.S. Representative from Ohio twice. He served as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, from 1851 to 1853.

From 1855 to 1861, he served as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses. Stanton served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-sixth Congress).

Stanton served as lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1862, during the American Civil War. After the battle of Shiloh, in April 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, Stanton visited the Union Army and soon published a statement critical of the Union generals. He opined that Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin M. Prentiss, both appointed from Illinois, should be court-martialed and shot. General William Tecumseh Sherman, appointed from Ohio, published a sharp rebuttal. This led to Stanton's criticizing Sherman as well.

Stanton moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1865, and practiced law. He moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1867 and continued the practice of law.

Death

Stanton died in Wheeling on June 2, 1872, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Wheeling, West Virginia.^[1]

References

External links

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Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Ohio
Governors	Tiffin Kirker Huntington Meigs Looker Worthington E. Brown Trimble Morrow Trimble McArthur Lucas Vance Shannon Corwin Shannon T. Bartley M. Bartley Bebb Ford Wood Medill Chase Dennison Tod Brough Anderson J. D. Cox Hayes Noyes Allen Hayes Young Bishop Foster Hoadly Foraker Campbell McKinley Bushnell Nash Herrick Pattison Harris Harmon J. M. Cox Willis J. M. Cox Davis Donahey Cooper White Davey Bricker Lausche Herbert Lausche J. Brown O'Neill DiSalle Rhodes Gilligan Rhodes Celeste Voinovich Hollister Taft Strickland Kasich
Lieutenant Governors	Medill Myers Ford Welker Kirk Stanton Anderson McBurney Lee Mueller Hart Young Curtiss Fitch Hickenlooper Richards Warwick Kennedy Conrad Lyon Lampson Marquis Harris Jones Caldwell Nippert Gordon Harding Harris Treadway Pomerene Nichols Greenlund Arnold Bloom C. Brown Bloom Lewis Bloom Pickrel Braden J. T. Brown Pickrel Sawyer Mosier Yoder Herbert Nye Herbert Nye J. W. Brown Herbert Donahey J. W. Brown Celeste Voinovich Shoemaker Leonard DeWine Hollister O'Connor Bradley Johnson Fisher Taylor

Chairmen of the United States House Committee on Armed Services
Military Affairs Committee (1822–1947)	Eustis Hamilton Vance Hamilton Drayton R. Johnson McKay C. Johnson Thompson Dawson Stanly Haralson Botts Burt Bissell Benton Quitman Faulkner B. Stanton Blair Buffington Schenck Garfield Logan Coburn Banning Sparks Henderson Rosecrans Bragg Townshend Cutcheon Outhwaite Hull Hay Dent Kahn McKenzie Morin James Quin McSwain Hill May
Naval Affairs Committee (1822–1947)	Fuller Crowninshield Storrs Hoffman Anderson White Jarvis Ingham Thomas Wise Parmenter Holmes King F. Stanton Bocock Benson Bocock Morse Sedgwick Rice Pike Scofield Whitthorne Harris Cox Herbert Boutelle Herbert Cummings Geissenhainer Boutelle Foss Padgett Butler Britten Vinson
Armed Services Committee (1947–)	Andrews Vinson Short Vinson Rivers Philbin Hébert Price Aspin Dellums Spence Stump Hunter Skelton McKeon Thornberry

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 4th congressional district
Caldwell Herrick Chambers Vance Thomas Corwin Morrow Vance Canby Moses Bledso Corwin Stanton Nichols Allen McKinney Lawrence McKinney Gunckel McMahon Keifer Shultz Le Fevre Anderson Yoder Gantz Layton Marshall Gordon Garber Tou Velle Goeke Russell Welty Cable Fitzgerald Cable Kloeb Albaugh Jones McCulloch Guyer Oxley Jordan

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th congressional district
Wilson Stanbery McLene Ridgway Vanmeter Thurman Taylor Corwin Stanton Shellabarger Johnston Hubbell Hamilton Beatty Lawrence Keifer Finley Keifer Little Kennedy Hare Strong Lybrand Warnock R. D. Cole Willis Key R. C. Cole Fletcher Mouser Fletcher Smith Betts Powell Kindness Lukens Boehner Davidson