- Rockwood Hoar
Infobox Congressman
name =Rockwood Hoar
state =Massachusetts
district =3rd
term_start =March 4 ,1905
term_end =November 1 ,1906
preceded =John R. Thayer
succeeded =Charles G. Washburn
birth_date =October 24 ,1855
birth_place =Worcester, Massachusetts
death_date =November 1 ,1906
death_place =Worcester, Massachusetts
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party =Republican
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footnotes =Rockwood Hoar (
October 24 ,1855 –November 1 ,1906 ) was a Representative fromMassachusetts , the son of Massachusetts US SenatorGeorge Frisbie Hoar .Hoar was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts and graduated fromHarvard University in 1876. He was a member of Company C, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, from 1875 to 1879, an assistant to thedistrict attorney for the middle districtWorcester County, Massachusetts from 1884 to 1887, a member of the common council of Worcester from 1887 to 1891, and aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of GovernorOliver Ames from 1887-1890. He served as judge advocate general with the rank of brigadier general on the staff of Governor Roger Wolcott from 1897 to 1900.He was the district attorney of Worcester County from 1899 to 1904. He was elected to the 59th Congress in 1904, serving from 1905 to 1906. He was also a board trustee of
Clark University , a board trustee of theWorcester Insane Hospital , and board director of theWashburn and Moen Manufacturing Company .Hoar died in Worcester after an illness of about five weeks and is buried in the Rural Cemetery there. Since his death occurred five days before the next election, the Third Congressional Republican District Committee, which was in session at the time of his death, nominated
Charles G. Washburn to fill the vacancy, and he won the seat.He married Christine Rice in 1893; she was the daughter of Worcester manufacturer
William E. Rice . They had two daughters, Frances Helen and Louisa Ruth. In addition to being SenatorGeorge Frisbie Hoar 's son, he was the nephew of U.S. Attorney General and Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar and cousin ofSherman Hoar . Rockwood Hoar was also the grandson of U.S. CongressmanSamuel Hoar and the great grandson ofRoger Sherman .References
*CongBio|H000655
*"Congressman Hoar Dead.", "The New York Times ", November 2, 1906.
* [http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0138 Rockwood Hoar Papers]
* [http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/hoarfamily.html The Hoar Family]
* [http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Portrait_Exhibit/43.html Civil War Photo]
* [http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/wwrice.html William Whitney Rice: A Biographical Sketch by Rockwood Hoar]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/1727.html Hoar family of Massachusetts] Political Graveyard
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