Robert G. Cousins, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert G. Cousins

American politician

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1859

Date of Death: 20-Jun-1933

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Robert G. Cousins

  • Robert Gordon Cousins (January 31, 1859 – June 20, 1933) was an eight-term Republican U.S.
  • Representative from Iowa's 5th congressional district.
  • He represented the Cedar 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," near Tipton, Iowa, in Cedar County, Iowa, Cousins attended the common schools, and was graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, in 1881.
  • After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1882, and engaged in practice in Tipton.
  • In 1886, Cousins was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives.
  • He was chosen by the House as one of the managers to conduct the impeachment proceedings of John L.
  • Brown before the Iowa Senate in 1886.
  • He served as prosecuting attorney for Cedar County from 1888 to 1890. In 1892, Cousins ran as a Republican against Democratic Congressman John 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 the Fifty-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 the Fifty-fifth through Fifty-ninth Congresses, and chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Sixtieth 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 a Chautauqua lecturer. He died on June 20, 1933, in Iowa City, Iowa.
  • He was interred in Red Oak Cemetery, five miles northwest of Tipton.

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