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Robert Cousins | |
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.jpg) Cousins in 1896 | |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromIowa's5th district | |
| In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1909 | |
| Preceded by | John T. Hamilton |
| Succeeded by | James W. Good |
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| Born | (1859-01-31)January 31, 1859 Tipton, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | June 30, 1933(1933-06-30) (aged 74) Iowa City, Iowa, U.S |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | Cornell College |
Robert Gordon Cousins (January 31, 1859 – June 20, 1933) was an eight-term RepublicanU.S. Representative fromIowa's 5th congressional district. He represented theCedar Rapids, Iowa, area for the last eight years of the 19th century and the first eight years of the 20th century.
Born on a farm, "Indian Lodge," nearTipton, Iowa, inCedar County, Iowa, Cousins attended the common schools, and was graduated fromCornell College inMount Vernon, Iowa, in 1881. After studying law, he wasadmitted to the bar in 1882, and engaged in practice in Tipton.
In 1886, Cousins was elected to theIowa House of Representatives. He was chosen by the House as one of the managers to conduct the impeachment proceedings of John L. Brown before theIowa Senate in 1886. He served as prosecuting attorney for Cedar County from 1888 to 1890.
In 1892, Cousins ran as aRepublican against Democratic CongressmanJohn Taylor Hamilton, who had won election to the U.S. House seat for Iowa's 5th congressional district two years earlier. Cousins defeated Hamilton in the general election and thereby became a member of theFifty-third Congress. He was then re-elected to the seven succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury from theFifty-fifth throughFifty-ninth Congresses, and chairman of theHouse Committee on Foreign Affairs in theSixtieth Congress.
In 1908, Cousins declined to be a candidate for renomination. In all, he served in Congress from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1909.
After leaving Congress, Cousins resumed the practice of law in Tipton, and also engaged as a writer and as aChautauqua lecturer.
He died on June 20, 1933, inIowa City, Iowa. He was interred in Red Oak Cemetery, five miles northwest of Tipton.
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