Everything about Richard Stockton 1764-1828 totally explained
Richard Stockton (1764-1828) was a lawyer who represented
New Jersey in the
United States Senate and later served in the
United States House of Representatives. He was the first
United States Attorney from New Jersey, holding that office from 1789 to 1791, and ran unsuccessfully for vice-president in the
1820 election as a member of the
Federalist Party, which didn't nominate a candidate for President.
His father, also named
Richard Stockton, was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence; and his son was the naval officer Commodore
Robert Field Stockton, who defeated the Mexican army in 1846 and became the first military governor of the State of California, and later became a Senator from New Jersey like his father before him.
Stockton was born in
Princeton, New Jersey on
April 17,
1764. He was tutored privately, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now
Princeton University) in 1779. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1784 and commenced practice in Princeton.
He was 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, but declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was an unsuccessful candidate for
Governor of New Jersey in 1801, 1803, and 1804. He was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress, serving from
March 4,
1813-
March 3,
1815, and declined to be a candidate for renomination to the Fourteenth Congress.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession. He died at
Morven, near Princeton, on
March 7,
1828, and was interred in
Princeton Cemetery in Princeton.
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