Born near
Vienna, Maryland in 1767, Stanford moved to
Hawfields, North Carolina, around 1793 and established an academy. He was elected to Congress as a
Democratic-Republican in 1796 and was re-elected nine times before his death in
Georgetown in 1816. During the
13th Congress, Stanford chaired the
Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. He is buried in the
Congressional Cemetery. Stanford was the grandfather of
Tennessee Senator William Robert Webb. ==See also==