Robert Goodloe Harper
| Robert Goodloe Harper | |
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United States Senator from Maryland |
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In office January 29, 1816 – December 6, 1816 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Smith |
| Succeeded by | Alexander C. Hanson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 5th district |
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In office February 9, 1795 – March 4, 1801 |
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| Preceded by | Alexander Gillon |
| Succeeded by | William Butler |
| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives | |
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In office 1790–1795 |
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| Born | January 1765 Fredericksburg, Virginia |
| Died | January 14, 1825 (aged 59–60) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Political party | Federalist |
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 United States of America
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| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Rank | Major General |
| Battles/wars | War of 1812 |
Robert Goodloe Harper (January 1765 – January 14, 1825), a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (1790–1795), the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina (1795–1801), and in the Maryland State Senate. He is best remembered for the phrase, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." The town of Harper, Liberia is named after him.
Harper, the fifth child and first son of Jesse Harper (1733 – ?) and Emily Diana Goodloe (1734–1788) was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia in January 1765 and moved with his parents to Granville, North Carolina around 1769. He received his early education at home and later attended grammar school. At the age of fifteen, Harper joined a volunteer corps of Cavalry and served in the American Revolutionary Army. He made a surveying tour through Kentucky and Tennessee in 1783, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1785. He studied law in Charleston, South Carolina, teaching school at the same time, and was admitted to the bar in 1786. He commenced practice in the Ninety-Sixth District of South Carolina, moving back to Charleston, S.C. in 1789.
On May 7, 1800, Harper married Catherine Carroll in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland, the daughter of Charles & Mary (Darnall) Carroll.
Robert had a least 4 children with Catherine:
Harper was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1790 until 1795, at which time he was elected from South Carolina to the Third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Gillon. He was reelected to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1800 to the Seventh Congress, serving as a U.S Representative from February 9, 1795 to March 1801. While in Congress, he was the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in the Fifth and Sixth Congresses. Harper was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1798 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against William Blount.
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