Robert A. Grant

Robert A. Grant (1943)

Robert Allen Grant (born July 31, 1905 in Bourbon , Marshall County , Indiana , †  March 2, 1998 in Mishawaka , Indiana) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Grant came to Hamlet in 1912 and to South Bend in 1922 . He attended the public schools in these cities. Until 1930 he studied law at the University of Notre Dame, among other things. After his admission to the bar in 1930, he began working in this profession in South Bend. In 1935 and 1936 he served as the assistant district attorney in St. Joseph County .

Politically, Grant was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1938 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Samuel B. Pettengill on January 3, 1939 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . Since 1941 these were determined by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1948 he was defeated by the Democrat Thurman C. Crook .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Robert Grant initially practiced as a lawyer again. On August 21, 1957, he was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a judge in the federal district court for the Northern District of Indiana, where he succeeded William Lynn Parkinson . From 1961 to 1972 he was chairman ( chief judge ) there. He moved to senior status in December 1972, but was reappointed as a judge to the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals in 1976 . Grant died on March 2, 1998.

Remarks

1. ↑ In some sources, Sarasota , Florida is also given as the place of death

Web links

• Robert A. Grant in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)