Robert Bruce Macon (July 6, 1859 – October 9, 1925) was a

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from

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. Macon was born near Trenton, Arkansas, and was left an orphan at the age of nine. He attended the public schools and studied at home, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He studied law and was

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in 1891. He commenced practice in

Helena, Arkansas Helena is the eastern portion of Helena–West Helena, Arkansas, a city in Phillips County, Arkansas. It was founded in 1833 by Nicholas Rightor and is named after the daughter of Sylvanus Phillips, an early settler of Phillips County and the n ...

. He served as member of the

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from 1883 to 1887, as clerk of the circuit court from 1892 to 1896, and as prosecuting attorney for the first judicial district from 1898 to 1902. Macon was elected as a

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to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1913). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1912. He continued the practice of law in

, until he retired in 1917. He died in

Marvell, Arkansas Marvell is a city in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,186. History Marvell was founded when Marvell M. Carruth and his wife, Rachel, sold 50 lots of land given to him by his father, ...

, October 9, 1925 and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macon, Robert Bruce 1859 births 1925 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives