Samuel Matthews Robertson

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Samuel Matthews Robertson

Samuel Matthews Robertson (born January 1, 1852 in Plaquemine , Louisiana , †  December 24, 1911 in Baton Rouge , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1907 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Robertson was the son of Congressman Edward White Robertson (1823-1887). He attended the Magruder's Collegiate Institute in Baton Rouge and then studied until 1874 at Louisiana State University . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1874, he began to work in Baton Rouge in this profession.

Politically, Robertson was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1879 he was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives. In 1880 he became a faculty member of Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College . After his father's death, he was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when the by-election was due for the sixth seat of Louisiana . There he took up his new mandate on December 5, 1887. After nine re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1907 . Between 1891 and 1893 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the levees on the Mississippi . During Robertson's time in the US House of Representatives, the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898 .

In 1906, Samuel Robertson was no longer nominated by his party for another legislative term. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer in Baton Rouge. Between 1908 and 1911 he directed the school for the deaf and deaf in Louisiana. He died on December 24, 1911 in Baton Rouge and was buried in the Magnolia Cemetery there.

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