Robert Hanna Hammond (April 28, 1791 – June 2, 1847) was an American politician who served two terms as a Democratic member of the

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from

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from 1837 to 1841.

Biography

Robert Hanna Hammond was born in

Milton, Pennsylvania Milton is a borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the West Branch Susquehanna River, north of Harrisburg, located in Central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River Valley. It is approximately 10 miles upriver from the mouth ...

. He was a member of the state militia, with the rank of brigadier general.

Military service

He enlisted in the

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as a lieutenant in 1817.

Public service

He resigned and returned to Milton to serve as register and recorder of

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. He served as postmaster of Milton from 1833 to 1837.

Congress

Hammond was elected as a Democrat to the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth congresses.

Later career

He reentered the Army and was commissioned paymaster during the

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. He was wounded and ordered home on sick leave.

Death and burial

He died at sea before reaching port in 1847. Interment in Milton Cemetery in Milton, Pennsylvania.

Sources

1791 births 1847 deaths American military personnel of the Mexican–American War Pennsylvania postmasters People who died at sea Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub