Joseph Stanton, Jr.

Joseph Stanton, Jr. (19 July 1739 - 1807) was an American politician of the Anti-Federalist faction.

During the American Revolutionary War, he was a colonel in the Rhode Island militia. After the war, he served as a general in the state militia. He was a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional convention in 1790, and as a U.S. Senator from 7 June 1790 to 3 March 1793. He was later elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1807. Stanton died later in 1807 in Charlestown.

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Joseph Stanton, Jr. at the 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

Preceded by None	United States Senator (Class 2) from Rhode Island 1790–1793 Served alongside: Theodore Foster	Succeeded by William Bradford

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