Robert Field Stockton, son of a U.S. Senator and grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a famous naval officer and politician in his own right. His naval fame was won in the conquest of Spanish California during the Mexican- American War. He later represented his home state of New Jersey as a Democratic United States Senator and turned down calls from Democrats for his nomination as President. He died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was seventy-one years old. (By John Osborne)
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"stockton, Robert Field," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 709.