Brenton was the representative for Indiana’s 10th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1857 to 1859.
He was previously the representative for Indiana’s 10th congressional district as an Ind. Republican-Democrat from 1855 to 1857; and the representative for Indiana’s 10th congressional district as a Whig from 1851 to 1853.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
