Robert A. Grant

Robert Allen Grant (July 31, 1905 - March 2, 1998) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.

Born near Bourbon, Indiana, Grant moved to Hamlet, Indiana, in 1912 and to South Bend, Indiana, in 1922.He attended the public schools. A.B., University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1928. J.D., University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1930.He was admitted to the bar in 1930 and commenced practice in South Bend. Deputy prosecuting attorney of St. Joseph County, Indiana, in 1935 and 1936.

Grant was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1949).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-first Congress in 1948.He resumed the practice of law in South Bend, Indiana. United States district judge, Northern District of Indiana, 1957, and chief judge from 1961 to 1972, senior judge from 1972 to 1998.He served on United States Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals, 1976.He died on March 2, 1998, in Mishawaka, Indiana.

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