Robert Turnbull (American politician)

Robert Turnbull ( born January 11, 1850 in Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia; † January 22, 1920 in Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1910 and 1913 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Turnbull first visited the Rock Spring Academy. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1871 was admitted to the bar he began in Lawrenceville to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1891 and 1910 he was district administrator ( County Clerk ) in Brunswick County. From 1894 to 1898 Turnbull was a member of the Senate of Virginia. In 1901 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution. In 1896 and 1904 he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

After the death of Mr Francis R. Lassiter Turnbull was at the due election for the fourth seat of Virginia as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 8, 1910. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1913 at the Congress. In 1912, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Turnbull again practiced as a lawyer. Since 1916 he worked in the administration of the District Court in Brunswick County. He died on January 22, 1920; be more accurate of death is not known. He was then buried in Lawrenceville.