| LC control no. | n 85367572 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rantoul, Robert, Jr., 1805-1852 |
| Variant(s) | Rantoul, Robert, 1805-1852 |
| Birth date | 1805-08-13 |
| Death date | 1852-08-07 |
| Place of birth | Beverly (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Harvard University Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. House Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators Public prosecutors |
| Found in | His Eulogy on the Hon. Levi Woodbury, 1852: t.p. (Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr.) MoSU-L/NLT files (hdg.: Rantoul, Robert, 1805-1852) NUCMC data from Beverly Hist. Soc. for Rantoul, R. Papers, 1792-1900 (Robert Rantoul, son of Robert Rantoul, 1778-1858) Biog. dir. of Amer. Cong. (Rantoul, Robert, 1805-1852; U.S. Rep. from Beverly, Mass.) DAB (Rantoul, Robert, 1805-1852, reformer) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, May 3, 2016 (Rantoul, Robert, Jr., a Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1805; attended the common schools and Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University in 1826; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Salem; moved to South Reading in 1830, to Gloucester in 1832, and to Boston in 1838, and practiced law; member, State house of representatives 1835-1839; member of the commission to revise the laws of Massachusetts; member of the State board of education 1837-1842; United States district attorney for Massachusetts 1846-1849; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster and served from February 1 to March 3, 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1851, until his death in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 1852; interment in Central Cemetery, Beverly, Mass.) OCLC, May 13, 2016 (usage: Robert Rantoul, Jr.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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