Robert B. Macon

Robert B. Macon

Robert Bruce Macon (born July 6, 1859 in Trenton , Phillips County , Arkansas , † October 9, 1925 in Marvell , Arkansas) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1913 he represented the first constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Macon had already lost both parents at the age of nine and became an orphan. He attended public schools. At the same time, he earned his living in agriculture. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1891, he began to work in his new profession in Helena .

Macon was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1883 and 1887 he was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives . He was then employed between 1892 and 1896 as a clerk of the Circuit Court ; from 1898 to 1902 he was a district attorney in the first legal district of the state of Arkansas.

In 1902, Macon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first district of Arkansas , where he succeeded Philip D. McCulloch on March 4, 1903 . After he was confirmed in his mandate in the following four congressional elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1913 . For the elections of 1912 Macon was not nominated by his party for another term. The nomination went to Thaddeus H. Caraway . After his tenure in Congress ended, Macon retired from politics. Until 1917 he worked again as a lawyer in Helena; then he retired.

Web links

• Robert B. Macon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert B. Macon in the database of Find a Grave (English)