Robert Crosser

Robert Crosser (left) with the inventor Garabed T. K. Giragossian (1917)

Robert Crosser (born June 7, 1874 in Holytown , North Lanarkshire , Scotland , † June 3, 1957 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1915 to 1919 and from 1923 to 1955 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for 21  congressional districts of the State of Ohio .

biography

In the suburbs of Motherwell , Holytown, Robert Crosser was born in 1874. In 1881 he emigrated with his parents to the USA and initially settled in Cleveland . That same year they moved to Salineville , where Robert attended public schools. In 1897 he finished his school career at Kenyon College in Gambier . At Columbia University he studied law , in 1901 he graduated from the University of Cincinnati . In the same year he was admitted to the bar and started working in Cleveland. In 1904 and 1905 he taught at the Baldwin-Wallace Law School . He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1911 to 1912.

Crosser was elected to the US House of Representatives for the first time in 1914 , where he sat, with an interruption between 1919 and 1923, until 1955 as a representative of the 21st congressional district. From 1949 to 1953 Crosser was Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce . In 1954 he was no longer put up as a candidate by his party. He retired to Bethesda, where he died in 1957. He was buried in Warrensville, Ohio in the Highland Park Cemetery.

Web links

Commons : Robert Crosser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Robert Crosser in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Crosser in the database of Find a Grave (English)