Robert E. Evans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert E. Evans

American politician

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1856

Place of Birth: Coalmont, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 08-Jul-1925

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Robert E. Evans

  • Robert Emory Evans (July 15, 1856 – July 8, 1925) was a Nebraska Republican politician. Evans was born in Coalmont, Pennsylvania in 1856.
  • He attended the Pennsylvania Normal School at Millersville, Pennsylvania and the Indiana Normal School.
  • He worked as a machinist from 1877 to 1883.
  • He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1886 and was admitted to the bar.
  • He moved to Dakota City, Nebraska 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 Dakota County, Nebraska.
  • 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 1912 Republican National Convention and became the president of the Nebraska State Bar Association in 1919. He defeated incumbent Dan V.
  • Stephens to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Nebraska in the Sixty-sixth Congress.
  • He was re-elected for a second term to the Sixty-seventh Congress.
  • 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 Lincoln, Nebraska where he had previously moved to serve on the Supreme Court.
  • He is buried in Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City, Iowa.

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