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See also:WINTHROP, See also:ROBERT See also:CHARLES (1809-1894) , See also:American orator and statesman, a descendant of See also:Governor See also:John Winthrop (1588-1649), was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 12th of May 1809. He graduated at Harvard in 1828, studied See also:law with See also:Daniel See also:Webster and in 1831 was admitted to the See also:bar. He was a member of the Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1834-1840--for the last three years as See also:speaker,—and in 1840 was elected to the See also:national House of Representatives as a Whig, serving from See also:December 184o to 185o (with a See also:short inter-See also:mission, See also:April-December 1842). He soon became prominent and was speaker of the Thirtieth See also:Congress (1847-1849), though his
conservatism on See also:slavery and kindred questions displeased extremists, See also:North and See also:South, who prevented his re-See also:election as speaker of the See also:Thirty-first Congress. On the resignation of Daniel Webster to become secretary of See also:state, Winthrop was appointed to the See also:Senate (See also:July 1850), but was defeated in the Massachusetts legislature for the short See also:term (See also:Jan. 30, 1851) and for the See also:long term (April 24, 1851) by a See also:coalition of Democrats and See also:Free Soilers and served only until See also:February 1851. In the same See also:year he received a See also:plurality of the votes See also:cast for governor, but as the constitution required a See also:majority See also:vote, the election was thrown into the legislature, where he was defeated by the same coalition. Thereafter, he was never a See also:candidate for See also:political See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. With the breaking up of the Whig party he became an See also:independent and supported Millard See also:Fillmore in 1856, John See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell in 186o, and See also:General G. B. McClellan in 1864. He was See also:president of the Massachusetts See also:Historical Society from 1855 to 1885, and for the last twenty-seven years of his See also:life was president of the See also:Peabody See also:Trust for the See also:advancement of See also:education in the See also:Southern States. Among his noteworthy orations of a patriotic See also:character were those delivered at Boston in 1876, at See also:Yorktown in 1881, and in See also:Washington on the completion of the Washington See also:Monument in 1885. He died in Boston on the 16th of See also:November 1894.
Among his publications were Addresses and Speeches (Boston, 1852–1886) ; Life and Letters of John Winthrop (2 vols., Boston, 1864–1867); and Washington, See also:Bowdoin and See also:Franklin (Boston, 1876). See R. C. Winthrop, Jr., Memoir of R. C. Winthrop (Boston, 1897).
End of Article: WINTHROP, ROBERT CHARLES (1809-1894)
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