Robert Hamilton

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(December 9, 1809 — March 14, 1878) Hamilton was an American politician and lawyer. Robert Hamilton was born in Sussex County, New Jersey. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1836. Hamilton acted as the prosecutor of pleas of Sussex County from 1848 to 1858, 1868, and 1869. He served as a member of the State House of Assembly in 1863 and 1864. Hamilton was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served during the Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Congresses from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000117]

Member of New Jersey Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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