| Office: | Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| Term Start: | 1894 |
| Term End: | 1895 |
| Successor: | William L. Reed |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1864 |
| Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Spouse: | Julia Jackson |
| Children: | Robert Shaw Teamoh |
| Party: | Republican |
Robert Thomas Teamoh (March 25, 1864 - 1912) was a newspaper reporter for The Boston Globe and state legislator in Massachusetts.[1] [2] [3] He was the nephew of Virginia state senator George Teamoh.[4]
Teamoh was born in Massachusetts to parents Thomas and Margaret Patterson Teamoh and lived in Brookline.[5] In 1894 he married Julia Jackson.[6]
Teamoh was a known Freemason and worked for the Boston Globe for over 20 years.[7] He is believed to be the first African American reporter for a white newspaper in Boston.[8]
He represented Ward 9 of the 1894 Massachusetts legislature. He was part of a delegation of legislators that visited Virginia. Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, Virginia's governor, refused the meet with the delegation while Teamoh was part of it so he waited outside. This caused some outrage and protest in Massachusetts.[9] Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin criticized Teamoh in her newspaper, Woman's Era, for "servile complicity" toward O'Ferrall.[10]
He was succeeded in office by William L. Reed.