Robert Douglas Heaton

Robert Douglas Heaton ( born July 1, 1873 in Raven Run, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, † June 11, 1933 in Ashland, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1919 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1886, Robert Heaton moved with his parents to Ashland. He attended the public schools of his respective home and then the Canandaigua Academy in upstate New York. He also graduated from the New York Military Academy in Cornwall. He then studied at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Then he engaged in Pennsylvania in various business areas. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1910 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Heaton was but then in the twelfth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Robert Emmett Lee on March 4, 1915. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1919 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the First World War.

In 1918, Heaton gave up another candidacy. Between 1919 and 1932 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. He was curator of the Ashland State Hospital; otherwise he resumed his previous activities on again. Robert Heaton died on 11 June 1933, Ashland.