as President Chester A. Arthur's Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1882–1885. Later, the town of Dayton, New Jersey, was named in his honor. References Further reading Republican Campaign Edition for the Million. Containing the Republican Platform, the Lives of Fremont and Dayton, with Beautiful Steel Portraits of Each, 1856 (Boston: John P. Jewett), via Illinois Historical Digitization Projects of the Northern Illinois University Libraries External links Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress Photograph of William Lewis Dayton William L. Dayton Papers at the Princeton University Library Retrospective: America's First Republican Vice President Nominee – Basking Ridge's William Dayton Beats out Abraham Lincoln |- |- |- |- 1807 births 1864 deaths People from Bernards Township, New Jersey American people of English descent Whig Party United States senators from New Jersey New Jersey Republicans New Jersey Whigs Republican Party (United States) vice presidential nominees 1856 United States vice-presidential candidates Ambassadors of the United States to France 19th-century American diplomats New Jersey Attorneys General Members of the New Jersey Legislative Council People from Freehold Township, New Jersey New Jersey lawyers People of New Jersey in the American Civil War 19th-century American lawyers