Robert Henry Whitelaw

Robert Henry Whitelaw (born January 30, 1854 in Lloyds , Essex County , Virginia , †  July 27, 1937 in Blytheville , Arkansas ) was an American politician . In 1890 and 1891 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1856 Robert Whitelaw came to Cape Girardeau County in Missouri with his father . Ten years later he returned to Virginia, where he attended private schools in Tappahannock and Staunton . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1873, he began to work in Cape Girardeau in this profession. In the same year he became a city lawyer there. Between 1874 and 1878 Whitelaw was a prosecutor in Cape Girardeau County. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1883 and 1887 he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives .

After the death of MP James P. Walker , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due for the by-election for the 14th seat of Missouri , where he took up his new mandate on November 4, 1890. Since he renounced another candidacy in the regular congressional elections of 1890 , he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1891 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Whitelaw practiced again as a lawyer in Cape Girardeau until 1927. He then withdrew into retirement, which he spent first in Blodgett and from 1934 in Blytheville. He died there on July 27, 1937.

Web links

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

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