Robert E. Lee Blackburn

Republican Representative of Kentucky's 7th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

April 9, 1870 (65 years old)

Birthday

September 20, 1935

Death

Served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Kentucky’s 7th congressional district.
Born near Furnace, Kentucky, and later moved to Stanton, Kentucky.
Attended county schools and Elliott Academy at Kirksville, Kentucky.
Worked as a traveling salesman for an oil company before engaging in general merchandising and agricultural pursuits.
Served as a second lieutenant in Company C, Fourth Infantry, United States Volunteers during the Spanish–American War.
Held office in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1904 and 1905.
Served as clerk of the court of Powell County, Kentucky from 1906 to 1910.
Engaged in the insurance and stock brokerage business, and later in the oil development business.
Appointed a member of the Kentucky Board of Agriculture from 1926 to 1928.
Elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 3, 1931.
Unsuccessful in reelection attempts for the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses.
Resumed work in the oil business after his political career.
Died in Lexington, Kentucky, and was interred in Stanton Cemetery, Stanton, Kentucky.