Adin B. Capron

Adin Ballou Capron (January 9, 1841 – March 17, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.

Early life and military career

Born in Mendon, Massachusetts, Capron attended the Woonsocket High School and Westbrook Seminary, near Portland, Maine. He settled in Stillwater, Rhode Island, and engaged in milling and dealing in grain. He enlisted as a sergeant in the Second Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, in May 1861. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major July 11, 1861, and commissioned lieutenant in September 1861. He served in the Signal Corps until the close of the Civil War, having been commissioned first lieutenant on March 3, 1863, and subsequently promoted to the rank of captain and major by brevet.

Political career

He served as member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives 1887-1892 and served as speaker in 1891 and 1892. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.

Capron was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1911). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910. He resumed his former business activities in Stillwater, Rhode Island, where he died March 17, 1911. He was interred in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island.

References

• Adin B. Capron at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2009-05-01

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Warren O. Arnold	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district 1897-1911	Succeeded by George H. Utter

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