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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsRobert Bernard HALL
(1812-1868)
HALL, Robert Bernard, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., January
28, 1812; entered the Boston Latin School in 1822; studied theology
in New Haven in 1833 and 1834 and was ordained to the ministry,
first as a Congregationalist and then as an Episcopalian; was one
of the twelve original members of Garrison’s Anti-Slavery
Society in 1832; moved to Plymouth, Mass.; served in the State
senate in 1855; elected as the candidate of the American Party to
the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the
Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); delegate to
the Union Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Plymouth,
Mass., April 15, 1868; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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