Robert Bryarly Gordon (August 6, 1855 – January 3, 1923) was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

Ohio

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Born at St. Marys

St. Marys, Ohio

St. Marys is a city in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The population was 8,342 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio, Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

, Auglaize County, Ohio

Auglaize County, Ohio

As of the census of 2000, there were 46,611 people, 17,376 households, and 12,771 families residing in the county. The population density was 116 people per square mile . There were 18,470 housing units at an average density of 46 per square mile...

, Gordon attended the public schools. He served as Postmaster of St. Marys from 1885 to 1889, as auditor of Auglaize County from 1890 to 1896, and served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention

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 in 1896.

Gordon was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fifty-sixth

56th United States Congress

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 and Fifty-seventh

57th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903). He later engaged in the flour and grain business at St. Marys, Ohio. He served as superintendent of the document room of the House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913, and as Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives from 1913 to 1919. He died in Washington, D.C.

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, and is interred in Elm Grove Cemetery, St. Marys, Ohio.

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