Edward Everett Robbins (September 27, 1860 – January 25, 1919) was a Republican member of the

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from

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. Edward E. Robbins was born at Robbins Station, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, son of Joseph Robbins, a coal mine operator. He attended the Elder's Ridge Academy and the

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. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1881 and from the law department of Columbia College in

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, in 1884. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was also engaged in banking and

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-mining enterprises. He was a member of the

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from 1888 to 1892. He served as chairman of the Republican county committee in 1885. He was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and served as major of Volunteers in the

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in 1898. Robbins was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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. He resumed the practice of his profession in Greensburg. He was elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served until his death. He had been reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress, but died in Somerset, Pennsylvania, before taking his seat. Interment in Saint Clair Cemetery in Greensburg.

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Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project

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Edward E. Robbins, late a representative from Pennsylvania, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920
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