Robert A. Grant
Robert Allen Grant ( * July 31, 1905 in Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana; † 2 March 1998 in Mishawaka, Indiana) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
In 1912 came Robert Grant after Hamlet and 1922 to South Bend. He attended the public schools of these cities. Until 1930 he studied at the University of Notre Dame, among others, Jura. After his made in 1930 admitted to the bar he began in South Bend to work in this profession. In the years 1935 and 1936 he was deputy district attorney in St. Joseph County.
Politically, Grant a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1938 he was in the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel B. Pettengill on January 3, 1939. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1949 five legislative sessions. These were determined since 1941 by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1948 he was defeated by Democrats Thurman C. Crook.
After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Grant practiced first again as a lawyer. On August 21, 1957, he was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be a judge at the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, where he became the successor of William Lynn Parkinson. From 1961 to 1972, he served there as chairman (Chief Judge ). He joined in December 1972 in the senior status, but was again appointed in 1976 as a judge to the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals. Grant died on 2 March 1998.