Robert Charles Wickliffe, U. S. Representative from Louisiana

1874 - 1912  (38 years)

• Name	Robert Charles Wickliffe
  Suffix	U. S. Representative from Louisiana
  Birth	1 May 1874	Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Jun 1912	Washington, D.C.   [1, 2]
  Burial	Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky   [1]
  Person ID	I12173	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Charles Wickliffe, Governor of Louisiana,   b. 6 Jan 1819, Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky d. 18 Apr 1895, Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Annie Davis Anderson,   b. 1837   d. 1876 (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	1870  [3]
  Family ID	F6588	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (citation details below): 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4714] Find a Grave page for Robert Charles Wickliffe. [S2439] Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress. [S4712] Find a Grave page for Robert Charles Wickliffe.