Robert G. Simmons

Robert Glenmore Simmons ( * December 25, 1891 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, † December 27, 1969 in Lincoln, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Simmons attended the common schools and from 1909 to 1911, the Hastings College. Then he studied until 1915 at the University of Nebraska law. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar he began in Gering to work in his new profession. In 1916 he was District Attorney in Scotts Bluff County. During the First World War Simmons was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

Simmons was a member of the Republican Party. In 1922, he was selected in the sixth district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Augustin Reed Humphrey 1923 replaced on March 4. After Simmons was confirmed in each case in the following four congressional elections, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1933 a total of five legislative sessions in Congress. In 1932, the sixth constituency was dissolved. Then Simmons ran unsuccessfully in the new successor district.

In the years 1934 and 1936 he applied unsuccessfully for a seat each in the U.S. Senate. In the meantime, he worked as a lawyer. In 1938, Robert Simmons to the presiding judge of the Supreme Court ( Chief Justice ) of Nebraska was appointed. In 1955, he was also an Associate Justice on the International Labour Court ( Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization) in Geneva. In 1963 he resigned as Chief Justice of Nebraska; but he continued to work as a private lawyer. Robert Simmons died in December 1969 and was buried in Scottsbluff.