William L. Stoughton
(March 20, 1827 — June 6, 1888) Stoughton was an American politician and lawyer. William Lewis Stoughton was born in Bangor, New York and moved to Michigan in 1849. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1851, and practiced law in Sturgis, Michigan. He acted as the prosecuting attorney from 1855 to 1859, and district attorney for the Michigan district in 1861. He resigned a few months later to enlist in the Union Army. Stoughton served as a member of the Michigan state constitutional convention in 1867, before being elected attorney general of Michigan. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1873.
[Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000979]
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Michigan Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875
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