Robert Milton Speer

Robert Milton Speer ( born September 8, 1838 in Cassville, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † January 17, 1890 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Speer visited the Cassville Academy and taught for some time after even as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1859 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Huntingdon to work in this profession. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the years 1872 and 1880, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In 1863 he was elected to the office of the Assistant Clerk of the State House of Representatives, an administrative post in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1870, Speer was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Daniel Johnson Morrell on March 4, 1871. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions. In 1874 he gave up another candidacy.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Speer again practiced as a lawyer. In 1876 he became co-owner of the newspaper Huntingdon monitor; In 1880 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on January 17, 1890 in New York and was buried in Huntingdon.