Robert Emory Evans (July 15, 1856 – July 8, 1925) was a

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Republican politician. Evans was born in Coalmont, Pennsylvania, in 1856. He attended the Pennsylvania Normal School at

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, and the Indiana Normal School. He worked as a

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from 1877 to 1883. He graduated from the law department of the

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, in 1886 and was admitted to the bar. He moved to

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, in 1887. Due to his training as a machinist and in the normal schools, he became superintendent of the Winnebago Industrial School from 1889 to 1891. In 1895, he became the prosecuting attorney of

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. He soon resigned that post to become the judge of the Nebraska Eighth Judicial District and served from 1895 to 1899. He was a delegate to the

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and became the president of the Nebraska State

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in 1919. He defeated incumbent Dan V. Stephens to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Nebraska in the

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. He was re-elected for a second term to the

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. He served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1923. He lost to Edgar Howard in 1922. He resumed his law practice in Dakota City. He was elected Judge of the Supreme Court from the Third District of Nebraska in 1924. He served until his death on July 8, 1925. He died in

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where he had previously moved to serve on the Supreme Court. He is buried in Graceland Park Cemetery in

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Robert Emory 1856 births 1925 deaths People from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania American people of Welsh descent Millersville University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni People from Dakota City, Nebraska Justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives