Background
He was born in Haughton, Ontario and became a pure bred livestock breeder and farmer.
He was born in Haughton, Ontario and became a pure bred livestock breeder and farmer.
He attended schools at Tuscarora and Aylmer.
He became president of the Houghton, Bayham and Tillsonburg Telephone Company and in 1923 was president of the Canadian Ayrshire Breeders Association. Stansell campaigned under the National Liberal and Conservative Party in a 22 November 1920 by-election at Elgin East but was unsuccessful. He was defeated in the 1926 federal election by William Horace Taylor.
He made another unsuccessful campaign at Norfolk—Elgin in 1930.
After more riding changes in the 1930s, Stansell ran in the Elgin riding in the 1935 election as a Reconstruction Party candidate but was again unsuccessful in winning a Parliamentary seat.