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Senate Years of Service: 1796-1799 Party: Federalist
STOCKTON, Richard, (son of Richard Stockton [1730-1781], father of Robert Field
Stockton, grandfather of John Potter Stockton, and uncle of Richard Stockton
Field),
a Senator and a Representative from New Jersey; born in Princeton,
N.J., April 17, 1764; tutored privately; graduated from the College of New
Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1779; studied law; admitted to the bar in
1784 and commenced practice in Princeton, N.J.; elected as a Federalist to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick
Frelinghuysen and served from November 12, 1796, to March 3, 1799; declined to
be a candidate for reelection; unsuccessful candidate for governor of New
Jersey in 1801, 1803, and 1804; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth
Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); declined to be a candidate for
renomination to the Fourteenth Congress; resumed the practice of his
profession; died at Morven, near Princeton, Mercer County, N.J., March 7,
1828; interment in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Stockton,
Thomas Coates.
The Stockton Family of New Jersey and Other Stocktons.
Washington, D.C.: Carnahan Press, 1911.
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