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Henry Stanbery
Henry Stanbery (February 20, 1803 – June 26, 1881) was an American lawyer and United States Attorney General.
Born in New York, he was the son of Jonas Stanbery, a physician. The family moved to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1814. Henry Stanbery graduated from Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania (now Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh) and studied law. He was a member of the Union Literary Society at Washington College. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1824
under Stanley Matthews, and at the Cincinnati Law School, where he received an LL.B. in 1867. He started working in the office of Henry Stanbery in 1868, shortly after Stanbery had resigned as United States Attorney General to take up the defense of President Andrew Johnson in his impeachment proceedings.
Public service.
In October 1869, Hunt was elected to the Ohio Senate, and he served 1870 and 1871. He was elected President Pro-Tempore of the Ohio Senate, being the youngest person in that position up to