Robert Charles Wickliffe (May 1, 1874 – June 11, 1912) was an American politician. He was a

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from

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Born in

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, while his parents were visiting relatives; he attended the public schools of St. Francisville,

; was graduated from

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, Danville, Kentucky, in 1895 and from the law department of

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, Louisiana in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in St. Francisville; member of the state constitutional convention in 1898; enlisted as a private in Company E, First Regiment, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, during the

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; was mustered out of the service in October 1898; returned to

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; district attorney of the twenty-fourth judicial district of Louisiana 1902–1906; elected as a

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to the 61st and 62nd congresses, (March 4, 1909 – June 11, 1912), when he was killed while crossing a railroad bridge in

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; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Cemetery Memorial
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"Killed by a Train"
''The Emporia Gazette'', Kansas, 11 June 1912
Robert C. Wickliffe, late a representative from Louisiana, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1913
1874 births 1912 deaths Centre College alumni Tulane University Law School alumni Burials at Cave Hill Cemetery Accidental deaths in Washington, D.C. Railway accident deaths in the United States People from Bardstown, Kentucky American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana 19th-century American lawyers People from St. Francisville, Louisiana 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{LouisvilleMSA-stub

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