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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsRobert RANTOUL, Jr.
(1805-1852)
Senate Years of Service:
1851-1851Party: DemocratRANTOUL, Robert, Jr., a
Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Beverly,
Mass., August 13, 1805; attended the common schools and Phillips
Andover Academy, Andover, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University
in 1826; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced
practice in Salem; moved to South Reading in 1830, to Gloucester in
1832, and to Boston in 1838, and practiced law; member, State house
of representatives 1835-1839; member of the commission to revise
the laws of Massachusetts; member of the State board of education
1837-1842; United States district attorney for Massachusetts
1846-1849; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster and
served from February 1 to March 3, 1851; elected as a Democrat to
the Thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1851, until his
death in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 1852; interment in Central
Cemetery, Beverly, Mass.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Bulkley, Robert D., Jr.
“Robert Rantoul, Jr., 1805-1852: Politics and Reform in
Antebellum Massachusetts.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton
University, 1971; Rantoul, Robert, Jr. Memoirs, Speeches and
Writings of Robert Rantoul, Jr. Edited by Luther Hamilton.
Boston: J.P. Jewett and Co., 1854.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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