Robert Morris Yardley (October 9, 1850 – December 8, 1902) was a

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member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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. Robert M. Yardley was born in

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. He attended public and private schools in Yardley and

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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in Doylestown. He served as district attorney of

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from 1880 to 1884. He was a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention. Yardley was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses. He served as chairman of the

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during the Fifty-first Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1890. He resumed the practice of law in Bucks County. He served as a member of the Doylestown School Board and as the director of several financial and public service corporations. He died in Doylestown, aged 52, and is buried in Doylestown Cemetery.

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