Robert Bernard Hall

Robert Bernard Hall ( born January 28, 1812 in Boston, Massachusetts, † April 15, 1868 in Plymouth, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Hall attended the Boston Latin School from 1822. After a subsequent study of theology and its made ​​in the 1834 ordination, he began to work as a Congregational clergyman. Hall joined early on in the movement against slavery. In 1832 he was one of the twelve members of the first founded by William Lloyd Garrison New - England Anti-Slavery Society. He later moved to Plymouth. Politically, he was a member of the American Party in the early 1850s. Then he worked for the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1855 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Hall was as a candidate of the American Party in the first electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas D. Eliot on 4 March 1855. After a re-election as a Republican, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In 1866, Robert Hall was a delegate to the Union Convention in Philadelphia.