Person:Robert Rantoul (4)

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Robert Rantoul, Esq.
b.13 Aug 1805 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
d.7 Aug 1852 Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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  • F.  Robert Rantoul (add)
  • M.  Joanna Lovett (add)
  1. Robert Rantoul, Esq.1805 - 1852
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  1. Charles W Rantoul
  2. Robert S Rantoul, Esq.1832 - 1922
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Robert Rantoul, Esq.
Gender Male
Birth[1] 13 Aug 1805 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage to Jane Elizabeth Woodbury
Death[1] 7 Aug 1852 Washington, District of Columbia, United Statesage 46 - died unexpectedly due to complications with erysipelas
Burial[2] Central Cemetery, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number Q2158571 (Wikidata)
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 STUDENTS. 1819., in Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
    107.

    Robert Rantoul, 12, Beverly. H. 1826. *1852

    Son of Hon. Robert Rantoul and Joanna Lovett.
    — At Mr. William Foster's.
    Graduated 1852.
    — Studied law with Hon. John Pickering and Hon. Leverett Salstonstall, Salem.
    Lawyer and reformer.
    Practiced in Salem ;
    from 1831, South Reading;
    from 1833, Gloucester;
    from 1839, Boston, with his home at Beverly.
    Rep. from Gloucester, 1835-38;
    U.S. Collector, Boston, 1843;
    U.S. Dist Att'y for Mass., 1845-49;
    U.S. Senator, unexpired term of Daniel Webster, 1851:
    M.C. from Essex District, 1851 until his death.
    With his schoolmate, Wilson Flagg, above, established at Beverly (1828) one of the first country lyceums, and started the publication of The Workingmen's Library.
    Mem. of Mass. Board of Education from its organization, and edited under its auspices The Common School Library.
    Mem. of First Board of Directors, Western R.R. (Worcester to Albany);
    organizer and corporator of Illinois Central R.R.
    Counsel for defence of Simms [sic], the fugitive slave, Boston, 1851.
    Died at Washington, D.C.
    -----
    [H = Harvard]
    [Simms = Thomas Sims from Georgia ]

  2. ↑ Robert Rantoul Jr., in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    last accessed Sep 2022.

    Robert Rantoul Jr. (August 13, 1805 – August 7, 1852) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts.

    Rantoul 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 Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1846–1849). He was elected in 1850 to the United States House of Representatives for the 32nd Congress. Before his term there began, he was named as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Charles Winthrop, who had been appointed after the resignation of Daniel Webster and resigned when he failed to win election to a full term. Rantoul served in the Senate from February 1 to March 3, 1851, and then in the House from March 4, 1851, until his death. He was buried in Central Cemetery, Beverly, Massachusetts. Rantoul had a wife, Jane Elizabeth Woodbury, and two children, Robert S. Rantoul and Charles W. Rantoul. ...

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