Robert E. Lee Blackburn

Robert E. Lee Blackburn ( born April 9, 1870 Furnace, Estill County, Kentucky; † September 20, 1935 in Lexington, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1931 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in childhood was Robert Blackburn with his parents to Stanton, where he attended the public schools. He then attended the Elliot Academy in Kirksville. Between 1891 and 1900 he worked as a traveling salesman for an oil company. During the Spanish- American War Blackburn lieutenant was a panel of volunteer infantry unit. He then became active in Stanton in trade and agriculture.

Blackburn was a member of the Republican Party. In 1904 and 1905 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Between 1906 and 1910 he worked as an administrative clerk at the District Court in Powell County. He then entered the insurance industry and in the stock market business until 1919. At the same time he was still active in the oil industry. From 1926 to 1928 he was a member of the Agriculture Committee of Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1928 he was in the seventh election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where on March 4, 1929 became the successor of Virgil Chapman. Since he lost to Chapman in the elections of 1930, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1931. This period was marked by the events of the Great Depression. In 1932, Blackburn applied unsuccessfully to return to the U.S. House of Representatives. After retiring from Congress, he took to his death in September 1935 back to its previous activities.

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