Lucien Jerome Fenton (May 7, 1844 – June 28, 1922) was an American Civil War veteran who served two term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1895 to 1899.
He taught school from 1865 to 1881.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for clerk of the courts of Adams County in 1880.
He served as clerk in the United States Treasury Department, Washington, D.C. from 1881 to 1884.
He returned to Ohio and organized the Winchester Bank in 1884.
He was appointed a trustee of the Ohio University at Athens by Governor McKinley in 1892.
He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892.
Congress
Fenton was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1898.
Death
He resumed banking in Winchester, Ohio.
He served as president of the Winchester School Board 1912-1922.
He served as president of the Adams County School Board 1918-1922.
Death
He died in Winchester, Ohio, June 28, 1922.
He was interred in Winchester Cemetery.