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Cranston, Henry Young

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1789, in Newport, R. I. In 1818 he was elected clerk of the court of common pleas, and held the office until 1833. He was for twenty-five years annually elected moderator for the town of Newport; and was a member of the lower branch of the legislature; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1847, when he was returned to the legislature, and was several times speaker of that body until 1854. He died Feb. 12, 1864, in Newport, R. I.