Robert Murphy Mayo

Robert Murphy Mayo (born April 28, 1836 in Hague , Westmoreland County , Virginia , †  March 29, 1896 ibid) was an American politician . In 1883 and 1884 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Mayo attended private schools and then the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg . In 1858 he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington . He then taught mathematics at the Mount Pleasant Military Academy in New York State and later at the Virginia Military Institute . At the same time he began at Lexington Law School , later Washington and Lee University , a law degree. During the Civil War he served first as a major and later as a colonel in the Confederation Army . After the war he was admitted to the bar in 1865, whereupon he worked in his home town of Hague in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In the years 1881 and 1882 and again from 1885 to 1888 he sat in the Virginia House of Representatives .

In the congressional election of 1882 Mayo was elected as a candidate for the short-lived Readjuster Party in the first constituency of Virginia to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded previous incumbent George Tankard Garrison on March 4, 1883 . This objected to the election result. When this was granted, Mayo had to resign his mandate on March 20, 1884 to Garrison. In the regular elections of 1884, he ran unsuccessfully to return to Congress.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Robert Mayo practiced as a lawyer again. He died on March 29, 1896 in his native Hague.

Web links

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

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