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Winthrop, Robert Charles

American, 1809 - 1894

Biography

Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894) of Boston, a descendant of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard and studied law with Daniel Webster. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving as its Speaker form 1847-1849, and later a U.S. Senator, filling out the unexpired term of Webster. In 1865 he married Cornelia Adelaide Granger Thayer, widow of John Eliot Thayer, who had a daughter, Adele.

Bibliography

1948
Mayo, Lawrence Shaw. The Winthrop Family in America. Boston, 1948: 339.

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