Henry Throop Stanton

Henry Throop Stanton (1834–1899) was an American poet, best known for his poem "The Moneyless Man".

Stanton was born in Alexandria, Virginia and educated in Maysville, Kentucky. He attended West Point for a time, but did not graduate. He later made a living as an editor and as a lawyer. During the American Civil War, Stanton served as the adjutant general of the Confederate States of America. Afterward, he returned to editing. Stanton died in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1899.

References

• Kent, Charles William, ed. (1997). Southern Poems. Selected, Arranged and Edited with Biographical Notes Electronic ed. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Accessed 13 December 2005.