Stanton, Benjamin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 4, 1809, in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio state senate in 1841; resigned in 1842, but was re-elected the same year. In October, 1850, he was elected to the house of representatives of the thirty-second congress, and was reelected to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1862 he was lieutenant-governor of Ohio.
STANTON, EDWIN MCMASTERS, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 19, 1814, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1842 he was elected reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of Ohio, and in 1848 formed a law partnership at Pittsburg. He soon afterwards began to be much employed in the supreme court of the United States which compelled him to remove to Washington in 1857. In 1858 he was sent, by the government, to California to defend its interests in certain important land cases in that state, and in 1860 went into President Buchanan's cabinet as attorney-general. In 1862 he was appointed secretary of war. In 1869 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died Dec. 24, 1869, in Washington, D. C.