Joseph Stanton, Jr.

Joseph Stanton, Jr.

Joseph Stanton, Jr. (19 July 1739 - 1807) was an American politician of the Anti-Federalist faction.

Stanton was born in Charlestown, Rhode Island in 1739. He served in the state legislature from 1768 to 1774.

During the American Revolutionary War, he was a colonel in the Rhode Island militia. After the war, he served as a general in the state militia. He was a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional convention in 1790, and as a U.S. Senator from 7 June 1790 to 3 March 1793. He was later elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1807. Stanton died later in 1807 in Charlestown.

References

*Wilkins Updike, "A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island" (Boston, 1907) has brief sketch of Stanton on [http://books.google.com/books?id=FGrGRfuDRxoC&pg=PA525 p. 525]


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