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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyRobert Field STOCKTON
(1795-1866)
Senate Years of Service:
1851-1853Party: DemocratSTOCKTON, Robert Field,
(son of Richard Stockton [1764-1828], father of John Potter
Stockton, grandson of Richard Stockton [1730-1781]), a Senator from
New Jersey; born in Princeton, N.J., August 20, 1795; was privately
tutored; attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton
University); entered the United States Navy in 1811, served in the
War of 1812, the war with Algiers, and the Mexican War; was sent to
the Pacific coast in 1845 and, in cooperation with the land forces,
captured the Mexican capital of California and organized a civil
government; attained the rank of commodore; returned home and
resigned his commission in 1850; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1851, until his
resignation on January 10, 1853; president of the Delaware &
Raritan Canal 1853-1866; member of the peace convention of 1861
held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent
the impending war; retired from public life; died in Princeton,
N.J., October 7, 1866; interment in Princeton Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Bayard, Samuel. A
Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton. New York: Derby
& Jackson, 1856; Spencer, Donald S. “Hawks and Doves in
the 1850’s: Stockton vs. Miller.” New Jersey
History 88 (Summer 1970): 99-109.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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