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| death_place = Livingston, New Jersey, U.S. | order = Member | title = of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 12th district | termstart = January 3, 1939 | termend = January 3, 1959 | predecessor = Frank W. Towey, Jr. | successor = George M. Wallhauser | office2 = Essex County Republican Chairman | termstart2 = June 1959 | termend2 = June 1962 |party= Republican |occupation= Banker |residence= Livingston, New Jersey |alma_mater= Harvard University (1915) |spouse= Elizabeth Stuyvesant Howard (1897-1988) |children = Katherine W. Kean Robert W. Kean, Jr. Hamilton Fish Kean II Elizabeth Kean Hicks Rose Kean Lansbury Thomas Kean |relations= Thomas Kean, Jr. (Grandson) Hamilton Fish Kean (Father) John Kean (Uncle) John Kean (Great-Great-Grandfather) Moses Taylor (Great-Grandfather) |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.〔Roberts, Sam. ("Early Census Is Found in a New Jersey University’s Files" ), ''The New York Times'', May 18, 2010. Accessed February 24, 2011. "Kean (pronounced cane), a merchant, originally used the ledger, made in England in the early 18th century, to keep track of his accounts and later was chosen by Washington to audit the Revolutionary Army."〕 He served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives representing New Jersey. ==Early Years== 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. He was a 1911 graduate of St. Mark's School and a 1915 graduate of Harvard University. He served in the National Guard and later in the United States Army during World War I earning the rank of lieutenant, the Silver Star, and the Distinguished Service Cross. He served under the command of General John J. Pershing. Kean became involved in politics at a young age. In 1905, His uncle got him appointed as a U.S. Senate page so he could observe the Inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt. He attended the 1912 Republican National Convention, where he was escorted by his uncle's secretary, Donald H. McLean, with whom he would late serve in Congress. Young Kean was a Roosevelt supporter, although his uncle and father had publicly endorsed the incumbent President, William Howard Taft. After he returned from the war, Kean took on campaign responsibilities on behalf of his father, who was the Republican National Committeeman from New Jersey from 1918 to 1928. He was heavily involved in his father's successful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1928, and his unsuccessful 1934 re-election bid.〔 After the war, Kean worked in investment banking in New Jersey and New York City, heading a firm known as Kean, Taylor & Company. He was a founder of the Livingston National Bank.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Kean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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