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William L. Dayton
William Lewis Dayton
American politician (1807–1864).
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Sex or Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Basking Ridge
Place of Death
Paris
Country of Citizenship
United States
Occupation
Politician
Judge
Lawyer
Diplomat
Position Held
New Jersey Attorney General
(1/20/1857 - 3/18/1861)
United States Senator
(7/2/1842 - 3/4/1843)
United States Senator
(3/4/1843 - 3/4/1845)
United States Senator
(3/4/1845 - 3/4/1847)
United States Senator
(3/4/1847 - 3/4/1849)
United States Senator
(3/4/1849 - 3/4/1851)
Board Member
(3/2/1861 - 12/1/1864)
United States Ambassador to France
(5/19/1861 - 12/1/1864)
Date of Birth
2/17/1807
Date of Death
Member of Political Party
Educated At
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Languages Spoken, Written or Signed
Name in Native Language
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Family Name
Place of Burial
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Candidacy in Election
Child
Described by Source
12/1/1864
Whig Party
( - 1854)
End Time
:
1854
Republican Party
(1854 - )
Start Time
:
1854
Princeton University
( - 1825)
End Time
:
1825
Human
William
Series Ordinal
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1
Lewis
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2
English
William L. Dayton
Washington, D.C.
Trenton
Paris
Dayton
Riverview Cemetery
Smithsonian Institution Archives
William Lewis Dayton
Elias Dayton
Kinship to Subject
:
Granduncle
Jonathan Dayton
Kinship to Subject
:
Second Cousin
1856 United States Presidential Election
Office Contested
:
Vice President of the United States
Votes Received
:
114
William Lewis Dayton, Jr.
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Start Time
:
1/20/1857
End Time
:
3/18/1861
Parliamentary Term
:
27th United States Congress
Electoral District
:
New Jersey Class 1 Senate Seat
Replaces
:
Samuel Lewis Southard
Parliamentary Group
:
Whig Party
Start Time
:
7/2/1842
End Time
:
3/4/1843
Parliamentary Term
:
28th United States Congress
Electoral District
:
New Jersey Class 1 Senate Seat
Parliamentary Group
:
Whig Party
Start Time
:
3/4/1843
End Time
:
3/4/1845
Parliamentary Term
:
29th United States Congress
Electoral District
:
New Jersey Class 1 Senate Seat
Parliamentary Group
:
Whig Party
Start Time
:
3/4/1845
End Time
:
3/4/1847
Parliamentary Term
:
30th United States Congress
Electoral District
:
New Jersey Class 1 Senate Seat
Parliamentary Group
:
Whig Party
Start Time
:
3/4/1847
End Time
:
3/4/1849
Parliamentary Term
:
31st United States Congress
Electoral District
:
New Jersey Class 1 Senate Seat
Parliamentary Group
:
Whig Party
Replaced By
:
Robert F. Stockton
Start Time
:
3/4/1849
End Time
:
3/4/1851
Organization Directed by the Office or Position
:
Smithsonian Institution
Start Time
:
3/2/1861
End Time
:
12/1/1864
Start Time
:
5/19/1861
End Time
:
12/1/1864
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