William R. Roberts

William Randall Roberts ( born February 6, 1830 in County Cork, Ireland; † August 9, 1897 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Randall Roberts was born a few months before the death of George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover, in County Cork. He received a limited education. Roberts emigrated in July 1849 in the United States and settled in New York City, where he pursued until 1869 commercial transactions. In 1865, he became president of the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish nationalist organization that attacks perpetrated on British institutions in Canada the following year, for which he was arrested by the governor.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1870, Roberts was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Morrissey on March 4, 1871. He was re-elected once and then retired after March 3, 1875 the Congress of.

After that, he was a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1877 from New York City. Two years later, he ran unsuccessfully for the post of sheriff. On April 2, 1885 President Grover Cleveland appointed him as successor to Cornelius Ambrose Logan to the Messenger ( Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ) in Chile, a position which he held until 19 August 1889. He died on August 9, 1897 in New York City and was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Woodside.