Robert Bernard Hall was a member of the United States House of Representatives

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 from Massachusetts

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. He was born in Boston on January 28, 1812. He entered the Boston Latin School

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, studied theology in New Haven, Connecticut

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, 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

William Lloyd Garrison

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 Anti-Slavery Society

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He moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He was elected as the candidate of the American Party

Know Nothing

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 to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican

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 to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859). Hall was a delegate to the National Union Convention

National Union Convention

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 in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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, and died in Plymouth on April 15, 1868. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.

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