succeeded death_date death_place birth_place jr/sr party profession preceded term birth_date spouse article_title state birth_name
robert f. stockton 1 december 1864 paris , france basking ridge , new jersey united states senator whig , republican politician , lawyer samuel l. southard july , 1851 2 , 1842 & ndash ; march 4 17 february 1807 margaret e. dayton william l. dayton
 new jersey william lewis dayton
william l. dayton

william lewis dayton -lrb- february 17 , 1807december 1 , 1864 -rrb- was an american politician , active first in the whig party and later in the republican party .
in 1856 , he was the first republican vice-presidential candidate .
during the american civil war , dayton served as the united states ambassador to france .
