Robert Rantoul, Jr.

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name =Robert Rantoul, Jr.


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jr/sr =United States Senator
state =Massachusetts
term_start =February 1, 1851
term_end =March 3, 1851
preceded =Robert C. Winthrop
succeeded =Charles Sumner
order2 =Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 2nd district
term_start2 =March 4, 1851
term_end2 =August 7, 1852
predecessor2 =Daniel P. King
successor2 =Francis B. Fay
birth_date =August 13, 1805
birth_place =Beverly, Massachusetts
death_date =August 7, 1852 (aged 46)
death_place =Washington, D.C.
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party =Democratic
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alma_mater =Harvard University
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profession =Law
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Robert Rantoul, Jr. (August 13, 1805 – August 7, 1852) was an American politician from Massachusetts.

He was born in Beverly, Massachusetts on August 13, 1805. He attended the common schools and Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1826. He practiced law in Salem, Massachusetts and moved to South Reading, Massachusetts in 1830, to Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1832, and to Boston, Massachusetts in 1838.

He was a member of: the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1835-1839), the commission to revise the laws of Massachusetts; and the Massachusetts Board of Education (1837-1842). He was the United States district attorney for Massachusetts (1846-1849) He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster (Robert Charles Winthrop had been appointed after Webster's resignation) and served from February 1, 1851 to March 3, 1851. He was then elected to the thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1851, until his death on August 7, 1852. He was interred in Central Cemetery, Beverly, Massachusetts.

References

* Dictionary of American Biography; Bulkley, Robert D., Jr. "Robert Rantoul, Jr. from 1805 to 1852: Politics and Reform in Antebellum Massachusetts." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1971.
* Rantoul, Robert, Jr. Memoirs, Speeches and Writings of Robert Rantoul, Jr. Edited by Luther Hamilton. Boston: J.P. Jewett and Co., 1854.

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7870519 Robert Rantoul, Jr.] at Find A Grave