Robert J. Vance

Robert Johnstone Vance ( born March 15, 1854 in New York City; † June 15, 1902 in Montreat, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Vance attended the public schools of his home. In 1870 he moved to New Britain in Connecticut. There he graduated from high school. Between 1878 and 1887 he was town clerk ( City Clerk ) his new hometown. Since 1881 he was also publisher and editor of the newspaper " New Britain Herald ". Vance was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1886 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut.

In the congressional elections of that year he was in the first district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican John R. Buck on March 4, 1887. But since he already lost the following elections in 1888 against William E. Simonds, Vance was able to spend up to the March 3, 1889, only one term in Congress.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Vance again devoted his private business interests. From 1893 to 1895 he was Minister of Labor ( Labor commissioner ) of the State of Connecticut. Thereafter he served 1896-1897 as mayor of New Britain. In his death in 1902 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. Robert Vance died on 15 June 1902 in North Carolina and was buried in New Britain.