Alston G. Dayton

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Alston G. Dayton

Alston Gordon Dayton (born October 18, 1857 in Philippi , Virginia , †  July 30, 1920 in Battle Creek , Michigan ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1895 and 1905 he represented the second constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives ; he then became a federal judge in the federal district court for the northern district of West Virginia.

Career

Alston Dayton was born in 1857 in Philippi, which was then part of Virginia and later became part of the state of West Virginia, which was founded in 1863. He attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1878 at West Virginia University in Morgantown . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1878, he began to work in his new profession in Philippi. In 1879 he became a district attorney in Upshur County . Between 1882 and 1886 he did the same job in Barbour County .

Dayton was a member of the Republican Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in 1894 as its candidate in the second district of West Virginia . There he stepped on March 4, 1895 to succeed the Democrat William L. Wilson . After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on March 16, 1905 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell , through which, among other things, the Philippines came under American sovereignty. The former Kingdom of Hawaii also became part of the United States at that time.

Dayton's resignation in March 1905 came just days after the start of a new legislative term. The occasion was his appointment as a judge at the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia to succeed John Jay Jackson . He held this office until his death in 1920 in Battle Creek; then his seat at this federal court fell to William Eli Baker . Alston Dayton was buried in his native Philippi.

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SURNAME Dayton, Alston G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dayton, Alston Gordon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Philippi , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1920
Place of death Battle Creek , Michigan