Ernest W. Roberts

Ernest William Roberts ( born November 22, 1858 in East Madison, Somerset County, Maine, † February 27, 1924 ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1917 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ernest Roberts attended the public schools in Chelsea and from then until 1877, the Highland Military Academy in Worcester. After a subsequent law degree from Boston University and his 1881 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1887 and 1888 he sat in the council of Chelsea; 1894-1896 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. After that he belonged in the years 1897 and 1898 to the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1898 Roberts was in the seventh election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Emerson Barrett on March 4, 1899. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 nine legislative sessions. Since 1913 he represented there as a follower of William Francis Murray the ninth district of his state. From 1909 to 1911 he was chairman of the Committee on private land claims. During his time in Congress, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

In 1916, Ernest Roberts was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced law in Washington DC. He died on 27 February 1924.