Robert Bernard Hall

Robert Bernard Hall (1859)

Robert Bernard Hall (born January 28, 1812 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  April 15, 1868 in Plymouth , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Hall attended the Boston Latin School from 1822 . After studying theology and being ordained in 1834, he began to work as a congregational clergyman. Hall joined the anti- slavery movement early on. In 1832 he became one of the first twelve members of the New England Anti-Slavery Society founded by William Lloyd Garrison . He later moved to Plymouth. Politically, he was a member of the American Party in the early 1850s . He then switched to the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . In 1855 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate .

In the congressional election of 1854 , Hall was elected as a candidate for the American Party in the first constituency of Massachusetts to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Thomas D. Eliot on March 4, 1855 . After re-election as Republican, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1859 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war .

In 1866, Robert Hall was a delegate to the Union Convention in Philadelphia .

Web links

• Robert Bernard Hall in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Bernard Hall in the database of Find a Grave (English)