Robb, Edward
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 19, 1857, in Brazeau, Mo. He was educated in the common schools, Brazeau academy, Fruitland Normal institute, and the Missouri state university; graduated from the law department of the Missouri State university in March, 1879, and the May following located in Perryville, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Perry county in 1880; and re-elected in 1882. He was elected a member of the legislature in 1884, and re-elected in 1886. He was appointed assistant attorney-general of the state in 1889, which position he held for the term of four years. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.