Robert Treat Paine (politician, 1812)

Robert Treat Paine (born February 18, 1812 in Edenton , Chowan County , North Carolina , †  February 8, 1872 in Galveston , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Paine first attended private schools and then what later became Trinity College in Hartford ( Connecticut ), which was then still called Washington College . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession. He also held various local offices; later he ran a shipyard. At the same time, Paine embarked on a political career in North Carolina. Between 1838 and 1848 he was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives on several occasions . During the Mexican-American War he was a colonel in a North Carolina regiment. In 1846, he was military governor in Monterrey in the occupied part of Mexico . After the war, he was a member of a commission that dealt with mutual claims from this war.

In the congressional election of 1854 Paine was elected as a candidate for the American Party in the first constituency of North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Henry Marchmore Shaw on March 4, 1855 . Until March 3, 1857, he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . This was shaped by the events leading up to the American Civil War . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Robert Paine moved to Galveston, Texas, where he worked in agriculture. He died there on February 8, 1872.

Web links

• Robert Treat Paine in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Robert Treat Paine in the database of Find a Grave (English)