Richard Henry Stanton

Birth Date

1812-09-09

Death Date

1891-03-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and legal writer. Alexandria, Virginia, native. Married to Asenath Throop Stanton in 1833. Father of Henry Thompson Stanton, Clarence L. Stanton, Asenath Stanton, Charlotte E. Stanton, Ella Stanton, Richard Henry Stanton, Jr., and Maria Stanton. Attended Hallowell Academy in Alexandria. Moved to Kentucky in 1835. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1839. Editor of the Maysville Monitor in Mason County from 1839 to 1841. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the Democratic Convention in Baltimore in 1844 and 1852. Postmaster for Maysville in Mason County from 1845 to 1849. Owned one enslaved person in Mason County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from 1849 to 1855. Presidential elector for James Buchanan in 1856. Commonwealth's attorney for the 10th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1857 to 1862. Partner, with Henry J. Stanton, in the law firm of Stanton & Son in 1859. Owned one enslaved person in Mason County in 1860. Hired one additional enslaved person in Mason County in 1860. District attorney for Lewis County in 1861. Arrested for disloyalty by General Nelson in October 1861 and released from custody in December 1861. Partner, with Thomas J. Stroop, in the law firm of Stanton & Throop, from 1861 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 118.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 166.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 21.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 5, p. 5.
Daniel S. Lamont, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series 2, vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1897), 913-14.
J. Stoddard Johnson, “Henry T. Stanton,” Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, 14 (May 1916): p. 9.
John Livingston, The Official Registry of and Law Register for the United States for the Year 1866 (New York: Subscription, 1866).
"Judge Stanton," The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY), March 21, 1891.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 561.
Livingston's United States Law Register and Official Directory, ed. John Livingston (New York: Subscription, 1859).
KYR-0001-021-0017.

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