{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Rockwood Hoar | image = Rockwood Hoar.jpg | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district|3rd]] | term_start = March 4, 1905 | term_end = November 1, 1906 | preceded = [[John R. Thayer]] | succeeded = [[Charles G. Washburn]] | office2 = District attorney of [[Worcester County, Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = 1899 | term_end2 = 1905 | predecessor2 = [[Herbert Parker (American politician)|Herbert Parker]] | successor2 = [[George S. Taft]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1855|8|24}} | birth_place = [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1906|11|1|1855|8|24}} | death_place = Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] | occupation = | profession = Lawyer | signature = | footnotes = | allegiance = {{nowrap|{{flag|United States of America}}}} | branch = [[File:Flag of the United States Army (unofficial proportions).svg|border|20px]] [[United States Army]] | service_years = 1875–1879 }}
'''Rockwood Hoar''' (August 24, 1855 – November 1, 1906) was a [[United States House of Representatives|representative]] from [[Massachusetts]], the son of Massachusetts U.S. Senator [[George Frisbie Hoar]].
==Life and career== Hoar was born in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], and graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1876. He was a member of Company C, Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, from 1875 to 1879, an assistant to the [[district attorney]] for the middle district [[Worcester County, Massachusetts]] from 1884 to 1887, a member of the common council of Worcester from 1887 to 1891, and aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor [[Oliver Ames (governor)|Oliver Ames]] from 1887 to 1890. He served as [[Judge Advocate General's Corps|judge advocate general]] with the rank of brigadier general on the staff of [[Governor of Massachusetts|Governor]] [[Roger Wolcott (Massachusetts politician)|Roger Wolcott]] from 1897 to 1900.
He was the district attorney of Worcester County from 1899 to 1905. He was elected to the [[59th United States Congress|59th Congress]] in 1904, serving from 1905 to 1906. He was also a board trustee of [[Clark University]], a board trustee of the [[Worcester State Hospital|Worcester Insane Hospital]], and board director of the [[Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company]]. Hoar was elected a member of the [[American Antiquarian Society]] in 1894.<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlisth American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref>
Hoar died in Worcester after an illness of about five weeks and is buried in the [[Rural Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts)|Rural Cemetery]] there. Since his death occurred five days before the next election, the Third Congressional Republican District Committee, which was in session at the time of his death, nominated [[Charles G. Washburn]] to fill the vacancy, and he won the seat.
He married Christine Rice in 1893; she was the daughter of Worcester manufacturer [[William E. Rice]]. They had two daughters, Frances Helen and Louisa Ruth. In addition to being Senator [[George Frisbie Hoar]]'s son, he was the nephew of U.S. Attorney General and Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice [[Ebenezer R. Hoar|Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar]] and cousin of [[Sherman Hoar]]. Rockwood Hoar was also the grandson of U.S. Congressman [[Samuel Hoar]] and the great grandson of [[Roger Sherman]].
==See also== *[[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]
==References== {{CongBio|H000655}} *"Congressman Hoar Dead.", ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 2, 1906. *[http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0138 Rockwood Hoar Papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024095036/http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0138 |date=October 24, 2007 }} *[http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/hoarfamily.html The Hoar Family] *[http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Portrait_Exhibit/43.html Civil War Photo] *[http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/wwrice.html William Whitney Rice: A Biographical Sketch by Rockwood Hoar] *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/1727.html Hoar family of Massachusetts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061216003241/http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/1727.html |date=December 16, 2006 }} Political Graveyard *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086383429;view=1up;seq=9 Rockwood Hoar, late a representative from Massachusetts, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1907]
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