Robert Goodloe Harper

Robert Goodloe Harper (born January 1765 in Fredericksburg , Colony of Virginia ; † 14. January 1825 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician of the Federalist Party , of the State of Maryland in the US Senate represented. He also served in the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina .

Life

Robert Harper was born as the fifth child and first son of Jesse Harper and Emily Diane Goodloe in January 1765 near Fredericksburg; his exact date of birth is not known. The family moved to Granville , South Carolina in about 1769 . At first, Harper was tutored by his parents, and later he attended the local elementary school. At the age of 15 he joined a volunteer corps and fought as a cavalryman in the Continental Army . He later worked as a surveyor, where he came in 1783 to Kentucky and Tennessee .

In 1785 he graduated from the College of New Jersey , now Princeton University . He then returned to South Carolina back, studied in Charleston the law , worked as a teacher and was incorporated in 1786 in the Bar Association, to which he initially worked in the 96th Judicial District of South Carolina, before he in 1789 settled back to Charleston. In 1800 he married Catherine Carroll, with whom he had four children.

politics

Harper's political career began with membership in the South Carolina House of Representatives , to which he was a member from 1790 to 1795. On February 9, 1795 he moved to the US House of Representatives as a representative of the fifth congressional electoral district of South Carolina, where he succeeded the late Alexander Gillon . After being re-elected several times, he remained in Congress until March 1801 . During this time he acted, among other things, as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means . He was also a member of the board of directors that oversaw the impeachment proceedings against US Senator William Blount from Tennessee in 1797 .

After serving in the House of Representatives, Harper moved to Maryland where he practiced as a lawyer. During the British-American War he rose to major general. In 1815 he helped build the Baltimore Exchange Co. and became a member of its board of directors . In his new home he remained politically active and successfully applied for a seat in the Maryland Senate . In January 1816, he returned to Congress as a US Senator for Maryland, where he only stayed until his resignation in December of the same year.

In the presidential election of 1816 , Robert Harper was one of four candidates for the vice presidency alongside the defeated federalist Rufus King . He received the three electoral votes of the state of Delaware in Electoral College . In the presidential election in 1820 , the federalists no longer put up their own candidate for the highest office. Harper was one of four members of his party who received votes in the ballot for the vice-presidency: an elector voted for him.

In 1819 and 1820, Harper traveled extensively in Europe . When the Marquis de Lafayette visited Baltimore in 1824, Harper was instrumental in the festivities. He died the following year in Baltimore and was first buried in the family cemetery of his country estate "Oakland"; later he was reburied in Baltimore's Greenmount Cemetery .

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SURNAME	Harper, Robert Goodloe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Fredericksburg , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1825
Place of death	Baltimore , Maryland