OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Edwin McMasters Stanton

BORN:
December 19, 1814
Steubenville, Ohio

DIED:
December 24, 1869 (age 55)
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
Kenyon College 

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democratic (before 1862)
Republican (1862–1869)

HIGHLIGHTS: 
1831-1834:
Attended Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
1836:
Admitted to the Ohio bar,
Married Mary Ann Lamson (died 1844)
1837-1839:
Prosecuting Attorney, Harrison County, Ohio
1839:
Moved to Steubenville, Ohio
1847:
Moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
1849-1856:
Counsel for the state of Pennsylvania
1856:
Married Ellen M. Hutchison
Moved to Washington, DC
1858:
Special Counsel to the United States in California land grant cases
1860-1861:
U.S. Attorney General
1861:
Confidential Adviser to General George B. McClellan,
Legal Adviser to Secretary of War Simon Cameron
1862-1868:
U.S. Secretary of War 
12/20/1869:
Nominated by Ulysses Grant to serve on U.S. Supreme Court,
Confirmed by Senate (46-11),
Died before Assuming Office 

BIOGRAPHIES:
Library of Congress
Department of Justice
Supreme Court of Ohio 
Lehrman Institute
Harper’s Weekly
Ohio History Central
Wikipedia

PAPERS:
Library of Congress (Digitized) 

ARTICLES:
Barricading Himself in His Office (WP, 1/26/2021)

PORTRAITS: