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Judge Robert R Roberts

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Louisiana, USA
Death: May 02, 1940 (67)
Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, USA
Place of Burial: Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Dr. Robert Ryer Roberts, Sr. and Mary Adeline Roberts
Husband of Olive Roberts
Father of Robert M. Roberts, II and Olive Goodwill Foster
Brother of WIlliam Horace Roberts; Dr. Norton Francis Roberts; Charles McCormick Roberts; Claude Z. Roberts and Jessie S. Roberts

Occupation: attorney, district judge in Shreveport
Managed by: Troy Matthew Phillips
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About Judge Robert R Roberts

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223284434/robert-r-roberts#

The Webster Review
Minden, La
May 7, 1940

Former Minden
Mayor Succumbs
In Shreveport

Funeral services for Judge Robert Roberts of Shreveport, former Minden mayor, who was found dead at his home Thursday afternoon, were held in Shreveport Saturday with Dr. James M. Owens, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, officiating. Burial was in Forest Park cemetery in Shreveport. He was 68.

Judge Roberts had been in ill health for the past two years.

Pallbearers at the burial were William H. Bryce of Memphis, Tennessee; Jasper Goodwill and Thomas Chrichton, Jr., of Minden; S.B. White of Ruston; Henry C. Walker, Jr., Cecil Morgan, Louis Forrester and Melvin Johnson of Shreveport.

Honorary pallbearers were the judges, officers and attorneys of the first district court.

Out of respect to Judge Roberts memory, all district court and city court recessed Saturday.

Survivors
Surviving are his widow; one son, Robert Roberts, Jr., Shreveport attorney, all of Shreveport; one daughter, Mrs. Murphy Foster of Franklin; two brothers, Dr. N.F. Roberts of Alabama and Claud Roberts of Choudrant; four grandchildren, Murphy Foster, Jr., Prescott Foster, Robert Roberts III and Mary Susan Roberts, all of Shreveport.

One of Shreveport's foremost citizens, Judge Roberts had a wide circle of friends throughout the state of Louisiana, where for more than a third of a century he was active in public affairs.

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From A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 21-22, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.

Hon. Robert Roberts, Jr. Among the men of public prominence in Northern Louisiana, few are better known over a wide territory or enjoy more entirely the confidence of their fellow citizens than Hon. Robert Roberts, Jr., of Shreveport. For many years he has been entrusted with public responsibilities, and with honor and efficiency has performed every public duty.

Judge Roberts was born in Union Parish, Louisiana, in 1872, son of Captain Robert and Mary (McCormick) Roberts, the former of whom was born in South Carolina and the latter in Mississippi. The grandparents of Judge Roberts came to Louisiana as permanent residents when their son Robert was ten years old, and the Tatter was reared and educated in Union Parish. He served throughout the war between the states as captain of a company in the Fifth Louisiana Infantry, Confederate Army, and in addition to serving a large clientele in the practice of medicine afterward filled positions of public usefulness for many years, being at the time of his death a member of the State Pension Board and formerly superintendent of education in Union Parish, a wise and judicious leader along many lines of public welfare.

Robert Roberts, Jr., spent his early schooldays in Union Parish, later entering Ruston College, where he graduated in 1893, and still later going to the Louisiana State University, where he continued until graduation in 1897. After teaching in the public schools for several years he entered upon the study of law in the office of Barksdale & Barksdale at Ruston, Louisiana, and in 1902 was admitted to the bar, following which he became a member of the firm of Barksdale, Barksdale & Roberts, representing the firm at Farmerville, where he maintained his office. Mr. Roberts made so favorable an impression at Farmerville that he was elected mayor, and later, after removing to Minden, was elected mayor of Minden in his several administrations bringing about reforms and bettering civic conditions in both places. It was while residing at Minden that Judge Roberts was first elected a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, in which august body he served with great usefulness for eight consecutive years. During his second term in the House of Representatives Judge Roberts was chairman of the ways and means committee, and also ranking member of the committee on rules. He was a member of the employer's liability commission appointed by Governor Hall in 1912, and one of the authors of the Burke-Roberts Workmen's Compensation law, which was enacted in the year 1914, and has proved since that time its usefulness and popularity with both employers and employees.

Before coming to the bench Judge Roberts had served in still other public capacities aside from his professional activities. He served as a member of the State Tax Commission in 1911, and the Constitutional Convention in 1913, and it was while serving as private secretary to Governor Hall that a vacancy occurred
on the bench of the Circuit Court of Appeals, through the death of Judge Ben Edwards. Governor Hall immediately appointed Mr. Roberts, and he served on the Circuit Bench for two years. In 1920, while still a resident of Minden, Judge Roberts was elected judge of the District Court, comprising Webster and Bossier
parishes, for a period of four years. On January 1, 1923, through a realignment of the judicial districts, Bossier Parish became a part of the First Judicial District, composed of Caddo and Bossier parishes. Judge Roberts is now engaged in private practice in Shreveport in partnership with his son.

Judge Roberts married Miss Olive Goodwill, of Minden, and they have one son and one daughter, Robert Roberts III, who completed his academic course at Louisiana State University in 1923, and his law course in 1925; and Olive, who is a 1925 graduate of Newcomb College, New Orleans. Judge Roberts is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Kappa Sigma and Masonic fraternities.

Judge Roberts has always, been ardently fond of out door sports, devoting his leisure time and vacations to fishing, quail hunting and duck shooting. For several years past he has been an enthusiastic golfer and is frequently seen upon the links of the Shreveport Country Club, of which he is a member.

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Judge Robert R Roberts's Timeline

1873
March 1873
Louisiana, USA
1900
1900
Age 26
Lincoln, Louisiana, USA
1903
September 20, 1903
Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States
1904
November 15, 1904
Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States
1940
May 2, 1940
Age 67
Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, USA
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Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States