biography
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Stanton, Frederick (Perry)
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| lived:
| (1814–94)
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| biography:
| US representative and governor, born in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. A lawyer in Memphis, he went to the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Tennessee, 1845–55), chairing the Committee on Naval Affairs before becoming governor of the Kansas territory (1858–61). |
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