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Roosevelt, Robert B

lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1829, in New York city. In 1868 he was appointed commissioner of fisheries for the state of New York; and from 1868 edited The New York Citizen. He was elected a representative to the forty-second congress as a democrat. He was United States minister to the Netherlands in 1888-89. He was the author of The Game Fish of North America; Coast and Game Birds of the Northern States; Florida and the Game Water Birds; Love and Luck; Progressive Petticoats; and Five Acres Too Much, a Satire.