- Frederick Perry Stanton
Frederick Perry Stanton (
December 22 ,1814 –June 4 ,1894 ) was a member of theUnited States House of Representatives forTennessee 's 10th congressional district and an interim governor of territorial Kansas. He was born inAlexandria, Virginia onDecember 22 ,1814 . He pursued classical studies and graduated fromColumbian College , now named George Washington University, inWashington, D.C. in 1833. He taught school, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice inMemphis, Tennessee .He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress and the four succeeding Congresses. He served from
March 4 ,1845 toMarch 3 ,1855 . During the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and during the Thirty-third Congress he was chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary.He served as the governor of
Kansas Territory from 1858 to 1861, according to theBiographical Directory of the United States Congress . However, according to the Lecompton Historical Society, he instead served as acting governor fromApril 15 ,1857 toMay 27 ,1857 and fromNovember 16 ,1857 toDecember 21 ,1857 . OnApril 1 of that year, he had been appointed Secretary of Kansas Territory, and he held that office untilDecember 21 . After his term ended, he moved toVirginia and subsequently settled inFlorida . He died in Stanton, Florida onJune 4 ,1894 . He was interred in South Lake Weir Cemetery at South Lake Weir, Florida.External links
* [http://www.lecomptonkansas.com/index.php?doc=governors2.php Lecompton, Kansas' list of acting governors of Kansas Territory]
* [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/s/stanton_frederick_perry.html "Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc."]
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000802 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
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