William L. Stoughton
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William Lewis Stoughton (March 20, 1827 - June 6, 1888) was a politician from U.S. state of Michigan.
Stoughton was born in Bangor, New York on March 20, 1827. He attended Kirkland, Painesville, and Madison Academies in Ohio. He studied law in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan from 1849 to 1851 when he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Sturgis, Michigan.
Stoughton was a prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph County from 1855 to 1859 and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860. He appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as United States District Attorney for the Michigan district in March 1861, but resigned a few months later to enter the Union Army. He served as colonel and brigadier general and was promoted to the rank of major general by brevet. He resigned in August 1864 because of ill health and resumed the practice of his profession in Sturgis, Michigan in 1865.
In 1867, Stoughton became a member of the Michigan State Constitutional convention and served as Michigan Attorney General from 1867 to 1868. He elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses serving from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1873 in the U.S. House representing Michigan’s 2nd district. He returned to practice law in 1874.
William L. Stoughton died in Sturgis, on June 6, 1888 and was interred in Oak Lawn Cemetery.
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| Preceded by: Charles Upson |
United States Representative for the 2nd Congressional District of Michigan 1863– 1869 |
Succeeded by: Henry Waldron |
| Preceded by: Albert Williams |
Michigan Attorney General 1867– 1868 |
Succeeded by: Dwight May |
