- Edward Everett Robbins
Edward Everett Robbins (
September 27 ,1860 –January 25 ,1919 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Edward E. Robbins was born at
Robbins Station, Pennsylvania . He attended the Indiana Normal School, andEldersridge Academy . He graduated fromWashington and Jefferson College inWashington, Pennsylvania , in 1881 and from the law department of Columbia College inNew York City , in 1884. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice inGreensburg, Pennsylvania . He was also engaged in banking andcoal -mining enterprises. He was a member of thePennsylvania State Senate from 1888 to 1892. He served as chairman of the Republican county committee in 1885. He was a member of thePennsylvania National Guard , and served as major of Volunteers in theSpanish-American War in 1898.Robbins was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1898. He resumed the practice of his profession in Greensburg. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served until his death. He had been reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, but died in
Somerset, Pennsylvania before taking his seat. Interment in St. Clair Cemetery in Greensburg.References
*CongBio|R000298 Retrieved on
2008-02-10
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robbins.html The Political Graveyard]
* [http://www.pa-roots.com/~westmoreland/historyproject/vol2/robbinsee.html Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project]
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