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Edward Everett Robbins (September 27, 1860 – January 25, 1919) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Edward E. Robbins was born at Robbins Station, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, son of Joseph Robbins, a coal mine operator. He attended the Elder's Ridge Academy and the Indiana Normal School. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1881 and from the law department of
Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
Edward E. Robbins, late a representative from Pennsylvania, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920
1860 births 1919 deaths Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators Washington & Jefferson College alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in Pennsylvania
Edward Everett Robbins (September 27, 1860 – January 25, 1919) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Edward E. Robbins was born at Robbins Station, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, son of Joseph Robbins, a coal mine operator. He attended the Elder's Ridge Academy and the Indiana Normal School. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1881 and from the law department of Columbia College Columbia College may refer to one of several institutions of higher education in North America:
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in New York City, in 1884. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was also engaged in banking and coal-mining enterprises. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered ev ...
from 1888 to 1892. He served as chairman of the Republican county committee in 1885. He was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and served as major of Volunteers in the Spanish–American War in 1898.
Robbins was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1898
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. He resumed the practice of his profession in Greensburg. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served until his death. He had been reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, but died in Somerset, Pennsylvania, before taking his seat. Interment in Saint Clair Cemetery in Greensburg.
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*List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
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References
*Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
External links
*Edward E. Robbins, late a representative from Pennsylvania, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920
1860 births 1919 deaths Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators Washington & Jefferson College alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in Pennsylvania