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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32212766P0'>Ohio attorney, politician, and Secretary of War. Son of David Stanton and Lucy Latham Norman Stanton. Married to Mary A. Lamson Stanton in Franklin County, Ohio, on December 31, 1836. Father of Lucy Lamson Stanton and Edwin Lamson Stanton. Married to Ellen Maria Hutchison Stanton on June 25, 1850. Father of Eleanor A. Stanton, Lewis Hutchinson Stanton, and Bessie B. Stanton. Attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Studied law with Daniel L. Collier. Admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1836. Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1847 to 1856. Attorney in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1856 to 1860. Attorney General of the United States of America from December 1860 to March 1861. Secretary of War of the United States of America from January 1862 to May 1868.
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Military: <rs ref='#S32202777'>Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32214958'>Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32203327'>Arthur Erenburgh (Allegheny County, PA, engineer, lieut. 1st Ky Ind. Battery &amp; 1st Ky Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Steubenville City, p. 57B. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 4, p. 375.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 2, p. 270A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993</hi>, Franklin County, Film 000285142, p. 163.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970</hi>, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 74014, State 904.<lb/>

Walter Stahr, <hi rend='italic'>Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary</hi> (New York: Simon &amp; Schuster, 2017).<lb/>

William L. Barney, <hi rend='italic'>The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War</hi> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 301-2.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B.<lb/>

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97<lb/>

Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13.</bibl>
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                  <bibl>Jeane Mason Fogle, "Washington, D.C." in <hi rend='italic'>Encyclopedia Britannica</hi>, (<a href='https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC)'>https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC)</a> (accessed May 22, 2017).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>USGS: Earth Explorer</hi>, "Washington, D.C.," <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/</a> (accessed on August 8, 2019).</bibl>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32214779'>John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.)</rs>
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                  <bibl>Frederick H. Dyer, <hi rend='italic'>A Compendium to the War of the Rebellion</hi>, Vol. III (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1197.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 520-521.</bibl>
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Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366.<lb/>

Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233.</bibl>
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