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An Illustrated Congressional Manual. The United States Red Book, 1896, (detail), Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
COUSINS, Robert Gordon, a Representative from Iowa; born on a farm, Indian Lodge, near
Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa, January 31, 1859; attended the common schools, and
was graduated from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1881; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1882 and engaged in practice in Tipton, Iowa; member
of the State house of representatives in 1886; elected by the State house of
representatives as one of the managers to conduct the impeachment proceedings
of John L. Brown before the State senate in 1886; prosecuting attorney of Cedar
County 1888-1890; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the seven
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1909); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Sixtieth Congress); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1908; resumed the practice of law at Tipton,
Iowa; also engaged as a writer and as a Chautauqua lecturer; died June 20,
1933, in Iowa City, Iowa; interment in Red Oak Cemetery, five miles northwest
of Tipton, Iowa.
BibliographyCousins, Robert Gordon. Address of Robert G. Cousins at
the Trans-Mississippi exposition at Omaha, Neb. Iowa day, September 21,
1898. [Omaha: N.p., 1898?]; Swisher, Jacob A.
Robert Gordon Cousins. Iowa City: State Historical Society of
Iowa, 1938.
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