Robert W. Kean
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 12th district |
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In office January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1959 |
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| Preceded by | Frank W. Towey, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | George M. Wallhauser |
| Essex County Republican Chairman | |
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In office June 1959 – June 1962 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Robert Winthrop Kean September 28, 1893 Elberon, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died |
September 21, 1980 (aged 86) Livingston, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard (1898-1988) |
| Relations |
Thomas Kean, Jr. (Grandson) Hamilton Fish Kean (Father) John Kean (Uncle) John Kean (Great-Great-Grandfather) Moses Taylor (Great-Grandfather) |
| Children | Katherine W. Kean Robert W. Kean, Jr. Hamilton Fish Kean II Elizabeth Kean Hicks Rose Kean Lansbury Thomas Kean |
| Residence | Livingston, New Jersey |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (1915) |
| Occupation | Banker |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
Robert Winthrop Kean (September 28, 1893 – September 21, 1980) was an American Republican Party politician and member of one of the nation's oldest and longest serving political families. He served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives representing New Jersey.
Kean was born September 28, 1893 in Elberon, New Jersey. His father, Hamilton Fish Kean (1862-1941), was a United States Senator from New Jersey and his son, Thomas Kean, served two terms as the Governor of New Jersey. Robert Kean was the great-great-grandson of John Kean, a Delegate to the Continental Congress from South Carolina (1756-1795). His uncle, John Kean (1852-1914), was also a United States Senator from New Jersey. His grandson, Thomas Kean, Jr., is presently the Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Senate. His mother, Katherine Taylor Winthrop (1866-1943), was a descendant of John Winthrop, a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is now New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of migrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years of existence. Kean is also a descendant of William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey.
His maternal great-grandfather was Moses Taylor (1806-1882), a 19th-century New York merchant and banker and one of the wealthiest men of that century. At his death, his estate was reported to be worth $70 million, or about $1.7 billion in today's dollars. He controlled the National City Bank of New York (later to become Citibank), the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, the Moses Taylor & Co. import business, and he held numerous other investments in railroads and industry. His real estate holdings in New York brought him into close association with Boss Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall, and in 1871, Taylor sat on a committee made up of New York's most influential and successful businessmen and signed his name to a report that commended Tweed's controller for his honesty and integrity, a report that was a notorious whitewash.
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