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Robert F. Stockton

1795–1866 · 19th century

Robert F. Stockton was a United States naval officer and politician. In 1821, commanding the schooner USS Alligator, he helped the American Colonization Society's agent Eli Ayres obtain Cape Mesurado from local rulers for the future colony of Liberia. During the Mexican–American War he led the American conquest of California in 1846, and he later served as a senator for New Jersey.

Robert F. Stockton
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Colony of Liberia

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