Robert Grey Bushong was a Republican

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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Robert G. Bushong was born in Reading, Pennsylvania

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. He was the son of Jacob and Lillie (Roberts) Bushong and the grandson of Anthony Ellmaker Roberts

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. He attended Phillips Academy

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 in Andover, Massachusetts

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. He graduated from Yale University

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 in 1903 and from the law school of Columbia University

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, New York City

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, in 1906. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Reading. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1908 and 1909. He was the president judge of the orphans’ court of Berks County, Pennsylvania

Berks County, Pennsylvania

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, in 1914 and 1915. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1924.

Bushong was elected as a Republican to the Seventieth

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 Congress, and was not a candidate for renomination in 1928. He resumed the practice of law in Reading and resided in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania

Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania

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. He died in Reading. Interment in Charles Evans Cemetery.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard
• "Robert G. Bushong." New York Times. 7 Apr 1951, 12.