Robert G. Simmons

Robert G. Simmons

Robert Glenmore Simmons (born December 25, 1891 in Scottsbluff , Nebraska , † December 27, 1969 in Lincoln , Nebraska) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Simmons attended the public schools of his home country and from 1909 to 1911 Hastings College . He then studied law until 1915 at the University of Nebraska . After his admission as a lawyer in the same year, he began to work in his new profession in Gering . In 1916 he was a district attorney in Scotts Bluff County . During the First World War , Simmons was a first lieutenant in the US Army .

Simmons became a member of the Republican Party . In 1922 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the sixth district of Nebraska, where he replaced Augustin Reed Humphrey on March 4, 1923 . After Simmons was confirmed in each of the following four congressional elections, he was able to complete a total of five terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . In 1932 the sixth electoral district was dissolved. Thereupon Simmons ran unsuccessfully in the new successor district.

In 1934 and 1936 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate . In the meantime he worked as a lawyer. In 1938, Robert Simmons was appointed presiding judge of the Nebraska Supreme Court ( Chief Justice ). In 1955 he was an associate judge at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labor Organization in Geneva . In 1963 he resigned as Chief Justice of Nebraska; but he continued to work as a private lawyer. Robert Simmons died on December 27, 1969 and was buried in Scottsbluff.

Web links

• Robert G. Simmons in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert G. Simmons in the database of Find a Grave (English)