Joseph Stanton Jr.
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Joseph Stanton Jr. (July 19, 1739 – December 15, 1821) was a military officer, a United States senator of the
Early life
Stanton was born in
Military service
During the American Revolutionary War, Stanton was commissioned as the lieutenant colonel of the 1st Kings County Regiment of the Rhode Island Militia in July 1776. He then served as the colonel of a regiment of state troops, raised for 15 months service, from December 12, 1776, until his resignation on November 10, 1777. (The regiment was part of a brigade of two infantry and one artillery regiments which was formed to deter an invasion of the mainland portion of Rhode Island by the British forces occupying Newport.) [1]: 354
In May 1779 he was appointed at the colonel of the 1st Kings County Regiment of the militia and was subsequently appointed a brigadier general in command of the Kings County Brigade of militia in October of the same year.[1]: 378 In May 1788 he was promoted to major general in command of the entire Rhode Island Militia.[1]: 458 He held this position until his resignation in October 1790.[1]: 480
Political career
He was a delegate to the
He was elected by the
Stanton died in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1821 at the age of 82, and was buried in the Stanton family cemetery in Charlestown.[2][3]
Legacy
There is a monument to Senator Stanton on
References
External links
- United States Congress. "Joseph Stanton Jr. (id: S000805)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Wilkins Updike, A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island (Boston, 1907) has brief sketch of Stanton on p. 525
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