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STANTON, Richard Henry, jurist, born in Alexandria, Virginia, 9 September, 1812. He received an academic education, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised in Maysville, Kentucky Being elected to congress as a Democrat, he served from 3 December, 1849, till 3 March, 1855, and he was presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in 1856, state attorney for his judicial district in 1858, a delegate to the National Democratic convention in 1868, and district judge in 1868-'74. He has edited the "Maysville Monitor" and the " Maysville Express," and published a "Code of Practice in Civil and Criminal Cases in Kentucky" (Cincinnati, 1855); "Practical Treatises for Justices of the Peace, etc., of Kentucky" (1861); and a " Practical Manual for Executors, etc., in Kentucky" (1862).--His brother, Frederic Perry, lawyer, born in Alexandria, Virginia, 22 December, 1814, obtained through his own exertion a good education, and was graduated at Columbian college in 1833. He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Alexandria in 1834, and removed to Memphis, Tennessee, where he practised his profession. He was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from 1 December, 1845, till 3 March, 1855, and in 1853-'5 was chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1857 he was appointed secretary of Kansas territory, and he was governor of Kansas from 1858 till 1861. In 1863-'4 he edited with Robert J. Mather the " Continental Monthly," and he has published numerous speeches in pamphlet-form.--Richard Henry's son, Henry Thompson, poet, born in Alexandria, Virginia, 30 June, 1834, was educated at several colleges in Kentucky and at the United States military academy, but was not graduated. He served as captain and major in the Confederate army. For several years he has been connected with the United States Indian commissioners in selecting lands for Indian reservations. He has invented an iron tie for binding cotton-bales, and is the author of "The Moneyless Man, and other Poems " (Baltimore, 1872). From 1875 till 1886 he edited the " Kentucky Yeoman."
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