1. Stephen Royce was an American lawyer, judge and politician.
22 Facts About Stephen Royce
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Stephen Royce taught school while attending Middlebury College, from which he graduated in 1807.
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Stephen Royce then studied law, attained admission to the bar 1809, and practiced in East Berkshire, Sheldon, and St Albans.
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Stephen Royce represented Sheldon in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817 and served as State's Attorney of Franklin County from 1816 to 1817.
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Stephen Royce represented St Albans in the Vermont House from 1822 to 1825, when he was selected to serve as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
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Stephen Royce served until 1826, and returned to the court as an associate justice in 1829.
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Stephen Royce served until 1846, when he became the court's chief justice.
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In 1854, Stephen Royce was the successful Whig nominee for governor, elected with support from Whigs and members of the new Republican Party.
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Stephen Royce was Vermont's first Republican governor, and the party remained in control of Vermont's government for the next 100 years.
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Stephen Royce's term included the Republican Party's creation of the Mountain Rule, under which governors alternated between the east and west sides of the Green Mountains and were limited to two years in office.
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Stephen Royce was buried at East Berkshire Episcopal Cemetery in Berkshire.
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Stephen Royce grew up in Franklin and Berkshire and attended the local schools.
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Stephen Royce began attendance at Middlebury College in 1804, where his classmates included Daniel Azro Ashley Buck and William Slade.
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Stephen Royce taught school in Sheldon to earn his tuition, and he graduated from Middlebury in 1807.
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Stephen Royce attained admission to the bar in 1809, and practiced in East Berkshire and Sheldon before moving to St Albans.
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Stephen Royce was Franklin County State's Attorney from 1816 to 1818, and served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1815 to 1816 and 1822 to 1824.
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Stephen Royce was a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1825 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1846.
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Stephen Royce was elected Governor of Vermont in 1854, as a Whig, the last Whig to hold the office.
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Stephen Royce was re-elected to a second one-year term as a Republican, serving from 1854 to 1856.
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Stephen Royce was the first Republican to attain the office after the party was founded in the mid-1850s, ushering in more than a century of Republican domination in Vermont politics.
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Stephen Royce was interred at East Berkshire Episcopal Cemetery in East Berkshire.
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Stephen Royce never married, but resided with his mother, at her request, whenever he was in his hometown.