Robert Selden Rose (February 24, 1774 – November 24, 1835) was a
U.S. Representative
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(1823–1827) from
New York
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Early life and education
Born in
Amherst County
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in the
Virginia Colony
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, Rose attended the common schools.
Marriage and family
Rose married Jane Lawson in Virginia, and they had seven children, including a son,
Robert Lawson Rose (1804–1877), who also served as US Congressman from New York (1847–1851).
Slave Owner
The 1810 Census shows 37 enslaved people in his household, who worked on his plantation and served in his house. The 1820 Census shows 9 enslaved people. Slavery ended in New York state in 1827, and the 1830 Census shows 3 free people of color in his household and no slaves.
Career
In an unusual migration path, Rose moved north to
Seneca County, New York
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in 1803. It was a time when millions of acres of public land were sold at inexpensive prices. He purchased land from Dr. Alexander Coventry and settled at
Fayette, New York
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, near
Geneva, New York
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, where he named his plantation Rose Hill.
He was first elected as a member of the state assembly in 1811. He was elected again in 1820 and 1821. That year he also served as a member of the state constitutional convention at
Albany, New York
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.
In 1822 Rose was elected to the
Eighteenth Congress as an
Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican. He was reelected as an Adams candidate to the
Nineteenth Congress, serving in total from March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1827.
The following year, Rose was elected as an anti-
Masonic
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candidate to the
Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831). He was later affiliated with the Whig Party. After serving in Congress, he resumed agricultural pursuits.
Rose died in
Waterloo, New York
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, while attending a session of the circuit court, on November 24, 1835. He was interred in the Old Pulteney Street Cemetery. Later his remains were reinterred in Glenwood Cemetery,
Geneva, New York
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.
State Senator
Robert C. Nicholas
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(1801–1854) was his son-in-law.
References
External links
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*Historic Geneva https://historicgeneva.org/people/slavery-at-rose-hill-mansion/
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1774 births
1835 deaths
People from Amherst County, Virginia
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
New York (state) National Republicans
National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
Anti-Masonic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
19th-century American politicians
People from Fayette, New York