Richard Stanford

Richard Stanford (born March 2, 1767 in Vienna , Dorchester County , Province of Maryland , †  April 9, 1816 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1797 and 1816 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Stanford was the grandfather of US Senator William R. Webb (1842-1926) from Tennessee . He attended the schools in his home country and around 1793 moved to Hawfields , North Carolina, where he founded a school. At the end of the 1790s he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by the later US President Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1796 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the fourth constituency of North Carolina, where he succeeded William Francis Strudwick on March 4, 1797 . After nine re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on April 9, 1816 . Between 1813 and 1815 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business . Since 1799 he represented the eighth district of his state as the successor to Archibald Henderson .

During Stanford's time in Congress, Washington DC, the new federal capital, was relocated in 1800. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase significantly expanded United States territory. In 1804 the twelfth amendment to the constitution was ratified, through which the election procedure for the president and vice-president was re-regulated. Between 1812 and 1815 the work of Congress was also determined by the events of the British-American War .

Web links

• Richard Stanford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Richard Stanford in the database of Find a Grave (English)