Robert L. F. Sikes

A Representative from Florida. Born in Isabella, near Sylvester, Worth County, Ga. , June 3, 1906. Attended the public schools. B. S. , University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. , 1927. MS. , University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. , 1929. Engaged in the publishing business at Crestview, Fla. , 1933-1946. Served in the Florida state house of representatives, 1936-1940. Elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses and served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation (January 3, 1941-October 19, 1944). United States Army during the Second World War, 1944. Delegate, Interparliamentary Conference in Warsaw, 1959. Elected to the Seventy-ninth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1979). Reprimanded by the U. S. House of Representatives on July 29, 1976, for improper financial disclosure and conflict of interest. Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978. Was a resident of Crestview, Fla. , until his death on September 28, 1994. Interment in Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery, Crestview, Fla.