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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaRobert Charles WICKLIFFE
(1874-1912)
WICKLIFFE, Robert Charles,
(grandson of Charles Anderson Wickliffe and cousin of John Crepps
Wickliffe Beckham), a Representative from Louisiana; born in
Bardstown, Ky., May 1, 1874, while his parents were on a visit to
relatives in that State; attended the public schools of St.
Francisville, La.; was graduated from Centre College, Danville,
Ky., in 1895 and from the law department of Tulane University, New
Orleans, La., in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and
commenced practice in St. Francisville, La.; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1898; enlisted as a private in Company
E, First Regiment, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, during the
Spanish-American War; was mustered out of the service in October
1898; returned to West Feliciana Parish; district attorney of the
twenty-fourth judicial district of Louisiana 1902-1906; elected as
a Democrat to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses and
served from March 4, 1909, until June 11, 1912, when he was killed
while crossing a railroad bridge in Washington, D.C.; interment in
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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