Robert Treat Paine (February 18, 1812 – February 8, 1872) was an American planter, ship builder and lawyer from Edenton, North Carolina.
He served as a Colonel of volunteers in the Mexican–American War and represented North Carolina in the U.S. Congress as a Know Nothing.
[1] Paine moved to Texas in 1860 and resumed farming.
He died in 1872 at Galveston and is buried in Prairie Lea Cemetery at Brenham, Texas.
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