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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaRobert Lee Fulton SIKES
(1906-1994)
SIKES, Robert Lee Fulton,
a Representative from Florida; born in Isabella, near Sylvester,
Worth County, Ga., June 3, 1906; attended the public schools; B.S.,
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 1927; MS., University of
Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1929; engaged in the publishing
business at Crestview, Fla., 1933-1946; served in the State house
of representatives 1936-1940; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from
January 3, 1941, until his resignation on October 19, 1944, to
enter the United States Army during the Second World War; delegate,
Interparliamentary Conference in Warsaw, 1959; elected to the
Seventy-ninth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1945-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978
to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Crestview, Fla.,
until his death on September 28, 1994.
Bibliography
Sikes, Bob. He-Coon, the Bob Sikes Story. Pensacola, Fla.:
Perdido Bay Press, 1984.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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