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Stanton, Richard Henry

journalist, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Sept. 9, 1812, in Alexandria, Va. Being elected from Kentucky to congress as a democrat, he served from 1849 till 1855, and was presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in 1856; state attorney for his judicial district in 1858; a delegate to the national democratic convention in 1868, and district judge in 1868-74. He edited the Maysville Monitor and the Maysville Express, and published a Code of Practice in Civil and Criminal Cases in Kentucky; Practical Treatises for Justices of the Peace, etc., of Kentucky; and a Practical Manual for Executors in Kentucky.