About Robert Simmons
Born 1850. Robert Simmons was a politician.
Robert Simmons (born c. 1850) was a farmer and state legislator who served in the South Carolina State Senate from 1882 until 1886.
Biography Simmons was born about 1850 in the Colleton District of South Carolina and he attended school after the American Civil War on Saint Helens's Island.
Then in 1876 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives to represent Berkeley County but never took his seat in the house. and then in the 56th General Assembly from 1884 until 1886 with the last session on December 24, 1885, both times representing Berkeley County.
He made a run for the United States Congress in 1888 as an independent but was not successful only receiving 74 votes compared to the winner Democrat William Elliott who got 8358 votes.
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South Carolina reconstruction-era American politician
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