About Robert Treat Paine
Lived 1812 – 1872 (aged 59). Robert Treat Paine was an American politician and lawyer.
Robert Treat Paine (February 18, 1812 – February 8, 1872) was an American planter, ship builder and lawyer from Edenton, North Carolina. He served as a Colonel of volunteers in the Mexican–American War and represented North Carolina in the U.S. Congress as a Know Nothing. He was educated at Washington College (now Trinity College).
Paine moved to Texas in 1860 and resumed farming. He died in 1872 at Galveston and is buried in Prairie Lea Cemetery at Brenham, Texas.
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American politician and enslaver 1812-1872
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Robert Treat Paine was born on 18 February 1812 in Edenton.
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Robert Treat Paine died on 8 February 1872.
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Robert Treat Paine was a politician and lawyer.
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