William L. Stoughton

William L. Stoughton

William Lewis Stoughton (born March 20, 1827 in Bangor , Franklin County , New York , †  June 6, 1888 in Sturgis , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1873 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Stoughton attended public schools in Ohio . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in his new profession in Sturgis in 1851. Between 1855 and 1859, Stoughton served as a district attorney. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. In March 1861 he was appointed state attorney for the Michigan district by Lincoln, who has now been elected president . But he gave this office a few months later on to active in the army of the Union in the Civil War participate. There he rose to Brevet - Major General by August 1864 .

In August 1864, Stoughton resigned from military service for health reasons. He then continued his legal practice in Sturgis. In 1867 he was a member of a convention to revise the Michigan constitution. In 1867 and 1868 he served as Attorney General of his state. In the congressional election of 1868 Stoughton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Charles Upson on March 4, 1869 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1873 . The 15th amendment to the constitution was passed there in 1870 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, William Stoughton returned to work as a lawyer. He died on June 6, 1888 in Sturgis.

Web links

• William L. Stoughton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• William L. Stoughton in the database of Find a Grave (English)