
Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh (4 September 1821 – 1 August 1888) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NY 28) from 4 March 1861 to 3 March 1863 (succeeding William Irvine and preceding Freeman Clarke) and from 4 March 1863 to 3 March 1865 (succeeding Alexander S. Diven and preceding Hamilton Ward Sr.).
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Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh was born in Prattsburgh, Steuben County, New York in 1821, and he became a lawyer in Bath. He served in the State Assembly in 1852 and from 1857 to 1858 and in the US House of Representatives from 1861 to 1865, and he organized 17 Union Army regiments at Elmira during the American Civil War and commanded the 107th New York at the 1862 Battle of Antietam. He went on to serve as minister to Japan from 1866 to 1869, and he then moved to Florida and served on the Florida Supreme Court from 1874 until his death in 1888.