American politician (1883–1951)
Robert Grey Bushong Tombstone
Robert Grey Bushong (June 10, 1883 – April 6, 1951) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania .
Robert G. Bushong was born in Reading, Pennsylvania . He was the son of Jacob and Lillie (Roberts) Bushong and the grandson of Anthony Ellmaker Roberts . He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts . He graduated from Yale University in 1903 and from the law school of Columbia University , New York City , in 1906. He was admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Reading. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1908 and 1909. He was the president judge of the orphans' court of Berks County, Pennsylvania , in 1914 and 1915. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1924.
Bushong was elected as a Republican to the Seventieth Congress, and was not a candidate for renomination in 1928. He resumed the practice of law in Reading and resided in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania . He died in Reading. Interment in Reading's Charles Evans Cemetery .
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