Robert S. Rose

Robert S. Rose, 1831

Robert Selden Rose (born February 24, 1774 in Amherst County , Colony of Virginia , † November 24, 1835 in Waterloo , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1827 and between 1829 and 1831 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Robert L. Rose was his son.

Career

Robert Selden Rose was born in Amherst County about a year before the War of Independence began . He attended community schools. In 1803 he moved to Seneca County and settled in Fayette near Geneva . He did agricultural work. In the following years he sat in the New York State Assembly in 1811, 1820 and 1821 . In 1821 he took part in the New York Constituent Assembly in Albany .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams-Clay faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Rose was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 26th  constituency of New York , where he became the first representative of the 26th district of New York in the US on March 4, 1823 -House of Representatives began his service. He joined the Adams faction. In 1824 he successfully ran for the 19th Congress . He then resigned from Congress on March 3, 1827 . In the following years he joined the Anti-Masonic Party . In the 1828 congressional elections for the 21st Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the 26th constituency of New York, where on March 4, 1829 he succeeded Dudley Marvin and John Maynard , who previously held the 26th joint election. Represented New York District in the US House of Representatives. He left the Congress after March 3, 1831.

He later joined the Whig Party . Rose went back to farm work. He died on November 24, 1835 in Waterloo while attending a session in the district court. His body was then interred in Old Pulteney Street Cemetery , but later reburied in Glenwood Cemetery in Geneva.

Web links

• Robert S. Rose in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Robert S. Rose in the database of Find a Grave (English)