Robert B. Scarborough

Robert Bethea Scarborough ( born October 29, 1861 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, † November 23, 1927 in Conway, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1905 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Scarborough attended the common schools and the Mullins Academy. He then worked for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1884 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Conway. Between 1885 and 1893 he was a prosecutor in Horry County. At the same time he was employed from 1885 to 1890 at the County Council ( County Board ).

Politically joined Scarborough on the Democratic Party. In the years 1897 and 1898 he was a member and President of the Senate of South Carolina. In 1899, Robert Scarborough Vice Governor of his state. In 1900 he was in the sixth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Norton on March 4, 1901. After a re-election in 1902 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 two legislative sessions.

1904 Scarborough leaned from a renewed candidacy for the House of Representatives. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He also went into the banking industry. Scarborough was also chairman of the South Carolina State Hospital. He died on 23 November 1927.