Benjamin Stanton
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 4th district |
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In office March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853 |
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| Preceded by | Moses Bledso Corwin |
| Succeeded by | Matthias H. Nichols |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th district |
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In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1861 |
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| Preceded by | Moses Bledso Corwin |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Shellabarger |
| 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio | |
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In office January 13, 1862 – January 11, 1864 |
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| Governor | David Tod |
| Preceded by | Robert C. Kirk |
| Succeeded by | Charles Anderson |
| Member of the Ohio Senate from the Champaign, Logan and Union Counties district |
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In office December 6, 1841 – December 3, 1843 |
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| Preceded by | Dowty Utter |
| Succeeded by | John Gabriel, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
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June 4, 1809 Mount Pleasant, Ohio |
| Died | June 2, 1872 (aged 62) Wheeling, West Virginia |
| Resting place | Greenwood Cemetery |
| Political party | Whig, Opposition, Republican |
Benjamin Stanton (June 4, 1809 – June 2, 1872) was an American politician who served as sixth Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1862 to 1864.
The son of Elias & Martha (Wilson) Stanton, he was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Stanton pursued academic studies, and learned the tailor's trade. Stanton studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834, and began practicing law in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Stanton served as a member of the Ohio Senate from 1841 to 1843, and as delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1850.
Stanton was elected as a U.S. Representative from Ohio twice. He served as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, from 1851 to 1853.
From 1855 to 1861, he served as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses. Stanton served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-sixth Congress).
Stanton served as lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1862, during the American Civil War. After the battle of Shiloh, in April 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, Stanton visited the Union Army and soon published a statement critical of the Union generals. He opined that Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin M. Prentiss, both appointed from Illinois, should be court-martialed and shot. General William Tecumseh Sherman, appointed from Ohio, published a sharp rebuttal. This led to Stanton's criticizing Sherman as well.
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