death_date birth_date alt birthname term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place profession term_start image name predecessor birth_place party state district successor article_title
20 march 1891 09 september 1812 a beard wearing a black jacket and white shirt bespectacled man with gray hair and a long bob stanton march 3 , 1855 maysville cemetery alexandria academy maysville , kentucky lawyer , newspaper editor march 4 , 1849 richard-h . - stanton.jpg richard h. stanton john p. gaines alexandria , virginia democrat kentucky 10th samuel f. swope richard h. stanton

richard h. stanton

richard henry stanton -lrb- september 9 , 1812 -- march 20 , 1891 , born bob stanton -rrb- was a nineteenth-century politician , lawyer , editor and judge from kentucky .
born in alexandria , virginia , stanton completed preparatory studies , attended alexandria academy , studied law and was admitted to the bar , commencing practice in maysville , kentucky in 1835 .
he was editor of the `` maysville monitor '' from 1835 to 1842 and served as postmaster of maysville .
he was elected a democrat to the united states house of representatives in 1848 , serving from 1849 to 1855 .
there , he served as chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds from 1849 to 1853 and of the committee on elections from 1853 to 1855 .
he was unsuccessful for reelection in 1854 .
afterwards , stanton served as a state 's attorney from 1858 to 1861 , was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1868 and was a district judge from 1868 to 1874 .
he resumed practicing law until his retirement in 1885 and died on march 20 , 1891 in maysville , kentucky .
he was interred there in maysville cemetery .
