- Robert Douglas Heaton
Robert Douglas Heaton (
July 1 1873 –June 11 1933 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Robert D. Heaton was born in
Raven Run ,Pennsylvania . He moved toAshland, Pennsylvania , with his parents in 1886. He attended theCanandaigua Academy in Canandaigua, New York, theNew York Military Academy atCornwall, New York , and theUniversity of Pennsylvania atPhiladelphia . He is identified with many business enterprises of the State and county.Heaton was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1910, and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses. He did not seek renomination in 1918, having become a candidate for the
Pennsylvania State Senate .He was a member of the State Senate from 1919 to 1932. He resumed his former business activities, and served as a member of the board of trustees of the
Ashland State Hospital . He died at Ashland, aged 59.Interment in the family cemetery at
Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania .ources
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