Robert E. Evans

Robert E. Evans

Robert Emory Evans (born July 15, 1856 in Coalmont , Huntingdon County , Pennsylvania , † July 8, 1925 in Lincoln , Nebraska ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the third constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Evans attended his home public schools, the State Normal School in Millersville and the Normal School in Indiana . Between 1877 and 1883 he worked as a machinist in Colorado . He then studied until 1886 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor law.

After being admitted to the bar, he started working in his new profession. In 1887 he moved to Dakota City , Nebraska. Between 1889 and 1891 he headed the Winnebago Industrial School . In 1895, Robert Evans became a district attorney in Dakota County . He resigned from this office that same year because he had meanwhile been appointed judge in the eighth legal district. He held this office between 1895 and 1899.

Evans became a member of the Republican Party . In 1912 he was a delegate to their Republican National Convention . In 1919 he became president of the Nebraska Bar Association. In the 1918 congressional election, Evans was elected to the US House of Representatives. There he took over from Dan V. Stephens on March 4, 1919 , whom he had defeated in the elections. After a re-election in 1920 Evans was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1923. In the 1922 elections he was defeated by his Democratic rival Edgar Howard .

After his tenure in Congress, Evans returned to working as a lawyer in Dakota City. In 1924 he was appointed as a judge on the Nebraska Supreme Court . Robert Evans died on July 8, 1925 in Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, where he had moved in 1924. He was buried in Sioux City , Iowa .

Web links

• Robert E. Evans in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert E. Evans in the database of Find a Grave (English)