Robert C. McEwen

Robert Cameron McEwen ( born January 5, 1920 in Ogdensburg, New York, † June 15, 1997 ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1981 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert McEwen attended the public schools of his home and then the Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts. He then studied at the University of Vermont and at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania. In the years 1942-1946 he served during the Second World War in the Air Corps of the U.S. Army, where he rose to the sergeant. After studying law at the Albany Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1947 he began in Ogdensburg to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1954 and 1964 he sat in the Senate from New York.

In the congressional elections of 1964, McEwen was the 31st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clarence E. Kilburn on January 3, 1965. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1981 eight legislatures. During his time in Congress were, among others, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and in 1974, the Watergate affair. Since 1973 McEwen represented as the successor of Carleton J. King 30th district of his state.

In 1980 he gave up another Congress candidate. Between 1981 and 1989 he was a member of the International Joint Commission, which deals with issues of water rights between Canada and the United States. Robert McEwen died on June 15, 1997 in Ogdensburg, where he was also buried.