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Dayton, William Lewis

lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 17, 1807, in Baskingridge, N. J. He was a member of the state senate of New Jersey in 1837; was appointed one of the justices of the superior court of the state in 1838, and resigned in 1841. He senator in congress from 1842 to 1851; and in 1856 was the republican candidate for vicewas a president on the ticket with J. C. Fremont.

In 1857 he was appointed attorney-general of New Jersey, which office he held until 1861, when he was appointed a minister to France. He died Dec. 2, 1864, in Paris, France.