Robert Douglas Heaton (July 1, 1873 – June 11, 1933) was a

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member of the

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from

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Biography

Robert D. Heaton was born in Raven Run,

. He moved to

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, with his parents in 1886. He attended the Canandaigua Academy in

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, the

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at Cornwall, New York, and the

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. He is identified with many business enterprises of the State and county. Heaton was an unsuccessful candidate for election in

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, and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses. He did not seek renomination in 1918, having become a candidate for the Pennsylvania State Senate. He was a member of the State Senate from 1919 to 1932. He resumed his former business activities, and served as a member of the board of trustees of the Ashland State Hospital. He died at Ashland, aged 59. Interment in the family cemetery at

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Sources

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* 1873 births 1933 deaths Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators People from Ashland, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania alumni New York Military Academy alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub