Henry E. Stoughton

Henry Evander Stoughton (July 23, 1815 – June 19, 1873) was an American attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate.

Crippled as a boy, he worked as a cobbler while studying law, attained admission to the bar in 1841, and practiced first in Chester, and later in Bellows Falls.

[1][2] A Democrat who advocated preservation of the union in the years preceding the American Civil War, Stoughton served in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1852, and was United States Attorney for the District of Vermont from 1857 to 1860.

[4][5][6] Stoughton subsequently became a Republican over the issues of preservation of the union and abolition of slavery.

[7][8] He later relocated to New York City, where he practiced law in partnership with his brother Edwin.