Robert Charles Winthrop

(1809-1894)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894 LBT ID: WiWinth1894 VIAF ID: 76690634 LOC ID: n85158382	B/BAP: 1809-05-12 DIED: 1894-11-16
SOURCES: ANB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
American statesman educated at Harvard who studied law with Daniel Webster and was Whig speaker of the house (1847-49) and appointed to the Senate in 1850 before losing the seat to Charles Sumner.
REFERENCES TO Robert Charles Winthrop: Daniel Webster to Samuel Rogers, 14 June 1847 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50.