Robert Craig (representative)

Robert Craig (1792 - November 25, 1852) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

Born near Christiansburg, Virginia, Craig attended the rural schools, Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Virginia, and was graduated from Lewisburg Academy in Greenbrier County.He engaged in planting.He served in the State house of delegates in 1817, 1818, and again in 1825-1829.He served as member of the Virginia Board of Public Works 1820-1823.

Craig was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress.He resumed agricultural pursuits.

Craig was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1841).He served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses).He was not a candidate for renomination in 1840.He moved to Roanoke County, Virginia, in 1842 and engaged in agricultural pursuits.He was again a member of the State house of delegates 1850-1852.He died on his estate, "Green Hill," near Salem, Virginia, November 25, 1852.He was interred in the family burying ground at "Green Hill.".

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