Biography

09/02/1873 - 09/25/1954

LOHR, Robert Walter, a Representative from Somerset County; born, September 2, 1873 in Jenner Township, Somerset County, Pa.; teacher; justice of the peace (10 years); farmer; school board member, Jenner Township (8 years); secretary, School Directors’ Association of Somerset County (5 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1912 and 1916; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1914); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1918); elected, president, Pennsylvania State Potato Growers’ Association (1926); elected, secretary, State Board of Agriculture and Farm Institute Lecturers; died, September 25, 1954 in Jenner Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Jenner Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.