Robert E. Evans

Robert Emory Evans ( born July 15, 1856 in Coalmont, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † July 8th, 1925 in Lincoln, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Evans attended the public schools of his home, the State Normal School in Millersville and the Normal School in Indiana. Between 1877 and 1883 he worked in Colorado as a machinist. Then he studied until 1886 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Jura.

After qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession. In 1887 he moved to Dakota City, Nebraska. Between 1889 and 1891 he headed the Winnebago Industrial School. In 1895, Robert Evans District Attorney in Dakota County. This office he laid down but still in the same year because he had meanwhile been appointed as a judge in the eighth judicial district. This post he held 1895-1899.

Evans was a member of the Republican Party. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In 1919 he became president of the Bar Association of Nebraska. In the congressional elections the year 1918 Evans was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. There he entered on March 4, 1919, the successor of Dan V. Stephens, whom he had defeated in the elections. After a re-election in 1920, Evans was able to implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1923. In the elections of 1922 he was inferior to his Democratic opponent Edgar Howard.

After the end of his time in Congress, Evans again worked as a lawyer in Dakota City. In 1924 he was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of his State. Robert Evans died in July 1925 in Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, where he had moved in 1924. He was buried in Sioux City, Iowa.