Robert Morris Yardley

Robert Morris Yardley ( born October 9, 1850 in Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, † December 8, 1902 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Yardley attended both public and private schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1872 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Doylestown to work in this profession. Between 1880 and 1884 he was district attorney in Bucks County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In June 1884 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Yardley was in the seventh election district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaac Newton Evans on March 4, 1887. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 two legislative sessions. Since 1889 he was chairman of the Committee to control expenditure of the War Department. In 1890 he gave up another candidacy.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Yardley again practiced as a lawyer. He was also a member of the school committee of the city Doylestown. He was also a director of various financial institutions and bodies of the civil service. He died on December 8, 1902 in Doylestown, where he was also buried.