Robert Bernard Hall

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Robert B. Hall

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st district
In office
18551859
Preceded by Thomas D. Eliot
Succeeded by Thomas D. Eliot

Born January 28, 1812(1812-01-28)
Boston, Massachusetts
Died April 15, 1868 (aged 56)
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Political party Republican/Whig

Robert Bernard Hall was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on January 28, 1812. He entered the Boston Latin School, studied theology in New Haven, Connecticut, and was ordained to the ministry, first as a Congregationalist and then as an Episcopalian. Hall was one of the twelve original members of Garrison’s Anti-Slavery Society.

He moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He was elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859). Hall was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia, and died in Plymouth on April 15, 1868. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.

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Preceded by
Thomas D. Eliot
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district

March 4, 1855March 3, 1859
Succeeded by
Thomas D. Eliot