Edward White Robertson

Edward White Robertson

Edward White Robertson (born June 13, 1823 in Nashville , Tennessee , †  August 2, 1887 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1883 and again in 1887 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

As early as 1825, Robertson came with his parents to Iberville Parish in Louisiana, where he attended public schools. He then continued his education until 1842 at Augusta College in Kentucky . In 1845 he enrolled at the University of Nashville to study law, but dropped out to take part in the Mexican-American War as a soldier . After the war, he finished his law degree in 1850, which he had continued at the University of Louisiana . After his admission as a lawyer in the same year, he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Robertson was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1847 and 1849 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives ; from 1857 to 1862 he was the auditor of the state budget of Louisiana ( State auditor of public accounts ). During the Civil War, Robertson joined in 1862 as a captain in the army of the Confederate States one. After the war he worked as a lawyer in Baton Rouge. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded Charles E. Nash on March 4, 1877 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1883 . From 1877 to 1879 he was chairman of the Mississippi Dyke Improvement Committee . He was then from 1879 to 1881 a member of a similar committee called the Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River .

In 1882 Robertson was not nominated by his party for another legislature. Four years later, in 1886, he succeeded again in winning the Democratic nomination for the congressional election in the sixth district of Louisiana. At the time, due to the dominance of his party, that meant winning the actual elections. On March 4, 1887, he took over his former seat in the US House of Representatives from Alfred Briggs Irion . He was only able to exercise his mandate for a short time, however, since he died on August 2, 1887, before the newly elected Congress had met for its constituent session. After a by-election, his son Samuel was elected as his successor.

Web links

• Edward White Robertson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward White Robertson in the database of Find a Grave (English)