Robert Bernard Hall

Infobox_Congressman
name=Robert B. Hall


state=Massachusetts
district=1st
term=1855 – 1859
preceded=Thomas D. Eliot
succeeded=Thomas D. Eliot
date of birth=birth date|1812|1|28|mf=y
place of birth=Boston, Massachusetts
date of death=death date and age|1868|4|15|1812|1|28|mf=y
place of death=Plymouth, Massachusetts
spouse=
profession=
religion=
party=Republican/Whig|

Robert Bernard Hall was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on January 28, 1812. He entered the Boston Latin School, studied theology in New Haven, Connecticut, and was ordained to the ministry, first as a Congregationalist and then as an Episcopalian. Hall was one of the twelve original members of Garrison’s Anti-Slavery Society.

He moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He was elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859). Hall was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia, and died in Plymouth on April 15, 1868. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.

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state=Massachusetts
district=1
before=Thomas D. Eliot
after=Thomas D. Eliot
years=March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859