Born near
Sebree, Kentucky, Denton attended the public schools and Van Horn Institute. He was graduated from the
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware in 1891 and from the law department of Boston (Massachusetts) University in 1893. He was
admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in
Evansville, Indiana. He served as counsel for the Intermediate Life Insurance Co..
Congress Denton was elected as a
Democrat to the
Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1919). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the
Sixty-sixth Congress, losing by four percentage points to
Oscar Luhring in the general election.
Later career and death He resumed the practice of law in
Evansville, Indiana. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1924 for judge of the Indiana Supreme Court. Candidate for the Democratic nomination for
United States Senator in 1926, but died before the primary election. He died in
Evansville, Indiana, January 4, 1926. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery. == Electoral history ==