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Byron Gray Stout [12 January 1829 - 19 June 1896]: representative from Michigan. Byron was born in Richmond, Ontario County, New York. After attending the common schools, he later graduated from the University of Michigan in 1851. While pursuing his career, Stout studied law and was the superintendent and principal of the Pontiac High School. From 1855 to 1857 he was a member of the State house of representatives. He was also a speaker of the house in 1857. In 1860 he became a member of the State senate. He served as a member of the Union Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866 and continued his services as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of New York in 1868, at Cincinnati in 1880, and at St. Louis in 1888. He entered in private banking prior to 1869. He was a Democratic member of the Fifty-second Congress, serving from March 1891 to March 1893. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1892. Stout returned to his home in Pontiac, Michigan and became president of the Oakland County Bank.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan[1]
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