Dr. William A. Robertson was President of the Louisiana State Senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor for two and a half months in 1881.

Political career

Robertson was a State Senator representing St. Landry Parish. During the 1876 presidential election, Robertson, a prominent supporter of Democratic nominee Samuel J. Tilden

Samuel J. Tilden

Samuel Jones Tilden was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial American elections of the 19th century. He was the 25th Governor of New York...

, was accused of offering a bribe of $200,000 to federal election officials to fraudulently deliver Louisiana's electoral votes for the Democrats.

Robertson was serving as President of the Senate when Governor Louis A. Wiltz

Louis A. Wiltz

Louis Alfred Wiltz was an American politician from the state of Louisiana. He served as 29th Governor of Louisiana from 1880 to 1881 and before that time was mayor of New Orleans, lieutenant governor of Louisiana, and a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.Wiltz was born in New Orleans...

 died in 1881. Lieutenant Governor Samuel D. McEnery

Samuel D. McEnery

Samuel Douglas McEnery served as the 30th Governor of Louisiana from 1881 until 1888, and as a United States Senator from 1897 until 1910....

 assumed the Governorship and Robertson became the Acting Lieutenant Governor. He was removed as President of the Senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor by a vote of that body on Dec. 24, 1881 and was replaced by Senator George L. Walton

George L. Walton

George L. Walton was President of the Louisiana State Senate and Acting Lieutenant Governor from 1881 - 1884.-Early life and Civil War:Walton married Amanda Miller in 1855....

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Robertson was not reelected to the Louisiana Senate in 1884.