Robert Bernard Hall (January 28, 1812 – April 15, 1868) was a member of the

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from

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. He was born in

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on January 28, 1812. He entered the

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, studied theology at

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where he graduated in 1835, 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

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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

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

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