Absalom Willis ROBERTSON，国会议员，弗吉尼亚州(1887-1971)

罗伯逊，押沙龙·威利斯来自弗吉尼亚州的众议员和参议员;出生于西弗吉尼亚州伯克利县马丁斯堡。1887年5月27日;1891年，他随父母搬到弗吉尼亚州的林奇堡;曾就读于弗吉尼亚州林奇堡和落基山的公立学校;1907年毕业于弗吉尼亚州里士满大学(University of Richmond)， 1908年毕业于法学院;1908年获得律师资格，并开始在弗吉尼亚州罗克布里奇县的布埃纳维斯塔执业;1919年，他搬到弗吉尼亚州罗克布里奇县的列克星敦，继续从事法律工作;1916-1922年州参议院议员;第一次世界大战期间，在弗吉尼亚州李军营担任美国陆军助理副官，并在华盛顿特区的副官办公室任职，1917年至1919年，军衔为少校;1922年至1928年担任洛克布里奇县联邦律师; chairman of the State commission of game and inland fisheries 1926-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until November 5, 1946, when he resigned; was nominated to the Eightieth Congress in 1946 but withdrew, having received the nomination for United States Senator; elected on November 5, 1946, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1949, caused by the death of Carter Glass; reelected in 1948, 1954 and 1960 and served from November 6, 1946, until his resignation December 30, 1966; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1966; co-chairman, Joint Committee on Defense Production (Eighty-fifth, Eighty-seventh, and Eighty-ninth Congresses), chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency (Eighty-sixth through Eighty-ninth Congresses); served as consultant to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1966-1968; retired and resided in Lexington, Va., until his death there November 1, 1971; interment in Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.

参考书目

美国国会。纪念地址。第92届，第2届。, 1972年。华盛顿特区:政府印刷局，1972年。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录，1771年至今