Julius Rockwell

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name =Julius Rockwell


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state =Massachusetts
district =7th
term_start =March 4, 1843
term_end =March 3, 1851
preceded =George N. Briggs
succeeded =John Z. Goodrich
order2 =United States Senator
from Massachusetts
term_start2 =June 3, 1854
term_end2 =January 31, 1855
predecessor2 =Edward Everett
successor2 =Henry Wilson
order3 =Massachusetts House of Representatives
term_start3 =1834
term_end3 =1837
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order4 =Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
term_start4 =1835
term_end4 =1837
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order5 =Massachusetts House of Representatives
term_start5 =1858
term_end5 =1858
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order6 =Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
term_start6 =1858
term_end6 =1858
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birth_date =April 26, 1805
birth_place =Colebrook, Connecticut
death_date =May 19, 1888 (aged 83)
death_place =Lenox, Massachusetts
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party =Whig
otherparty =Republican Party
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alma_mater =Yale University
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profession =Law
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Julius Rockwell (April 26, 1805 – May 19, 1888) was a United States politician from Massachusetts, and the father of Francis Williams Rockwell.

Rockwell was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and educated at private schools and then Yale, where he studied law, graduating in 1826. He was admitted to the bar and in 1830 commenced practice in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1834 and served four years, three of them as Speaker. Rockwell was appointed commissioner of the Bank of Massachusetts from 1838 to 1840.

In 1842 he successfully ran as a Whig candidate for the House of Representatives and was re-elected three times, serving from 1843 to 1851. He did not seek renomination in 1850. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1853, and was appointed to the Senate in 1854 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward Everett, serving from June 3, 1854 to January 31, 1855, when his successor Henry Wilson was elected. Rockwell voted in the electoral college for the Republican candidate John Frémont in the presidential election of 1856.

Rockwell returned to his old post of Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1858, until his appointment to the Massachusetts Superior Court in 1859. [Citation |last = Cooke | first = Rollin Hillyer | year = 1906 | title = Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts Vol. II| pages = 119-123 | publisher = The Lewis Publishing Co | location = New York, N.Y., Chicago, IL | date = 1906] He retired as a judge in 1886 and died May 19, 1888 in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he is buried.

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