William Daniel Brayton

William Daniel Brayton

William Daniel Brayton (born November 6, 1815 in Warwick , Rhode Island , †  June 30, 1887 in Providence , Rhode Island) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the second constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Brayton attended the Kent Academy in East Greenwich and the Kingston Academy . He then studied at Brown University in Providence for two years . After finishing school and college, Brayton worked in commerce. He was also a member of the Rhode Island Militia and became a major in 1842 during the Dorr Riot, which was about changing suffrage. In 1844 Brayton became a member of Warwick City Council.

In 1841 and 1851 he was elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives; In 1848 and 1853 he made it into the State Senate . Then he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . As their candidate, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the second district of Rhode Island in 1856, where he replaced Benjamin Babock Thurston on March 4, 1857 . After a re-election in 1858 Brayton could complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1861 . From 1859 to 1861 he was chairman of the committee to monitor spending on government real estate. In the elections of 1860 Brayton lost to George H. Browne .

Between 1862 and 1871, Brayton headed the tax department in Rhode Island's Second Financial District. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , where President Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for a second term. He then worked as a department head in the Providence Postal Administration. William Brayton died there in June 1887.

Web links

• William Daniel Brayton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Daniel Brayton in the database of Find a Grave (English)