Edward John Robeson Jr.
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromVirginia's1st district
In office May 2, 1950 – January 3, 1959
Preceded by	S. Otis Bland
Succeeded by	Thomas N. Downing
Personal details
Born	(1890-08-09)August 9, 1890 Waynesville, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	March 10, 1966(1966-03-10) (aged 75) Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S.
Party	Democratic
Alma mater	University of Georgia
Occupation	civil engineer

Edward John Robeson Jr. (August 9, 1890 – March 10, 1966) was aU.S. representative fromVirginia.

Born inWaynesville, North Carolina, Robeson moved from Wythe County, Virginia, with his parents toCartersville, Georgia, in 1891.He attended the public schools in Quitman, Marietta, and Sparta, Georgia.He graduated from theUniversity of Georgia at Athens in 1910. While a student at the university, he was a member of thePhi Kappa Literary Society.He worked as a civil engineer inBay Minette, Alabama, and Ironwood, Michigan from 1910 to 1915.He was employed with the Newport News (Virginia) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. from 1915 until his retirement April 30, 1950, as vice president and personnel manager.

Robeson was the third head football coach atThe Apprentice School inNewport News, Virginia and he held that position for two seasons, from 1924 until 1925.^[1] His record at Apprentice was 7–6–4.^[2]

Robeson was elected as aDemocrat to the Eighty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Schuyler Otis Bland.He was reelected to the Eighty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from May 2, 1950, to January 3, 1959.He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1958.

He was a signatory to the 1956Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court inBrown v. Board of Education.

• 1950 – Robeson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 81% of the vote, defeating Republican Nile Straughan and Independent Stanley S. Garner.
• 1952 – Robeson was re-elected unopposed.
• 1954 – Robeson was re-elected unopposed.
• 1956 – Robeson was re-elected with 50.83% of the vote, defeating Republican Horace E. Henderson.
• 1958 – Robeson was defeated by Thomas N. Downing for renomination.

He was a resident ofNewport News, Virginia, until 1964, at which time he returned to Waynesville, North Carolina.He died inPascagoula, Mississippi, on March 10, 1966.He was interred in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesville.

• United States Congress."Edward J. Robeson Jr. (id: R000329)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• Edward J. Robeson Jr. atFind a Grave

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• The Apprentice Builders football coaches
• People from Waynesville, North Carolina
• North Carolina Democrats
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