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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1841|01|09}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]],
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|03|17|1841|01|09|mf=yes}}
| death_place = {{nowrap|[[Smithfield, Rhode Island|Stillwater]],<br>[[Providence County, Rhode Island|Providence County]],<br>[[Rhode Island]], U.S.}}
| resting_place = [[Swan Point Cemetery]]<br>[[Providence, Rhode Island]]
| parents = Carlile Willis Capron<br>Abigail (Bates) Capron
| spouse = Irene Ballou<br>Phebe Almira Mowry
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| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| alma_mater = [[Westbrook Seminary]]
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==Early life and military career==
Born in [[Mendon, Massachusetts]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Mendon (Mass.)|title=Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850|date=1920|publisher=Wright & Potter printing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsmen00baldgoog/page/n44 40]|url=https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsmen00baldgoog }}</ref> Capron attended Woonsocket High School and [[Westbrook Seminary]], near [[Portland, Maine]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Neale|first=Walter|title=Autobiographies and portraits of the President, cabinet, Supreme court, and Fifty-fifth Congress, Volume 1|date=1899|publisher=The Neale company|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT380 }}</ref> He settled in [[Smithfield, Rhode Island|Stillwater, Rhode Island]], and engaged in milling and dealing in grain. He enlisted as a [[sergeant]] in the [[2nd Rhode Island Regiment]] of the [[2nd Rhode Island Infantry|Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry]] in May 1861. He was promoted to the rank of [[Sergeant Major#United States|
He served in the Signal Corps until the close of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], having been commissioned [[first lieutenant#United States|first lieutenant]] on March 3, 1863, and subsequently promoted to the rank of [[Captain (United States)|captain]] and [[Major (United States)|major]] by [[Brevet (military)|brevet]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits|date=1909|publisher=American Publishers' Association|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ/page/n536 552]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ }}</ref>
==Political career==
From 1887
Capron was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate to the [[55th United States Congress]] and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving in Congress from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1911.<ref>{{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits|date=1909|publisher=American Publishers' Association|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ/page/n536 552]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_urzTAAAAMAAJ }}</ref> He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910.
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