1. Benjamin Stanton was an American politician who served as the sixth lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1862 to 1864.
12 Facts About Benjamin Stanton
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Benjamin Stanton studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834, and began practicing law in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
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Benjamin Stanton served as a member of the Ohio Senate from 1841 to 1843, and as delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1850.
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Benjamin Stanton was elected as a US Representative from Ohio twice.
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Benjamin Stanton served as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, from 1851 to 1853.
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Benjamin Stanton served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs.
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Benjamin Stanton served as lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1862, during the American Civil War.
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Benjamin Stanton opined that Ulysses S Grant and Benjamin M Prentiss, both appointed from Illinois, should be court-martialed and shot.
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Benjamin Stanton's move from Ohio to West Virginia would seem to support that statement.
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Benjamin Stanton moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1865, and practiced law.
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Benjamin Stanton moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1867 and continued the practice of law.
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Benjamin Stanton died in Wheeling on June 2,1872, two days before his sixty-third birthday, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Wheeling, West Virginia.