Joseph Stanton

Joseph Stanton (born July 19, 1739 in Charlestown , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , †  1807 ibid) was an American politician who represented the state of Rhode Island in both chambers of the US Congress .

As a young man, Stanton fought on the British side in the Seven Years' War in Canada . He began his political career as a Member of the Colonial Parliament of Rhode Island between 1768 and 1774.

During the Revolutionary War he held the rank of Colonel in the Rhode Island Militia; after the war he made it to the state militia as a general. After he had participated in the Constitutional Convention of Rhode Island in 1790, he was from June 7 of the same year one of the two first US Senators of the state; Theodore Foster took the second seat of the Senate .

Stanton remained in the Senate until March 3, 1793. At this point in time, there were no parties in the current sense; he was part of the anti-administration faction, which was critical of the government under George Washington . On March 4, 1801 he returned to Congress as a member of the Democratic Republican Party in the House of Representatives , from which he resigned on March 3, 1807 after six years. He died in his hometown of Charlestown later that year.

Web links

• Joseph Stanton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)