Robert L. Bobbitt
| Robert Lee Bobbitt, Sr. | |
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| Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives | |
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In office 1927–1929 |
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| Preceded by | Lee Satterwhite |
| Succeeded by | Wingate Barron |
| Texas State Representative from Webb County | |
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In office 1923–1929 |
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| Preceded by | Herbert Spencer Bonham |
| Succeeded by | Edward Mullaly |
| Texas Attorney General | |
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In office 1929–1930 |
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| Preceded by | Claude Pollard |
| Succeeded by | James V. Allred |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 24, 1888 Hillsboro, Texas, Hill County Texas, USA |
| Died | September 14, 1972 (aged 84) San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Belle Westbrook Bobbitt (married 1918-1971, her death) |
| Children | Robert Lee Bobbitt, Jr. |
| Residence |
Laredo, Webb County, Texas |
| Alma mater |
Carlisle Military School |
| Profession | Attorney |
| Religion | Presbyterian Church in the United States |
Laredo, Webb County, Texas
Carlisle Military School
University of North Texas
Robert Lee Bobbitt, Sr. (January 24, 1888 – September 14, 1972), was an attorney and Democratic politician from San Antonio, Texas, who served in the first half of the 20th century as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Attorney General of Texas, and chairman of the Texas Highway Department.
Named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee and called "Robert Lee," Bobbitt was born on Cobb Creek on a cotton farm and cattle ranch called Plum Hill. The specific location is near Hillsboro in Hill County north of Waco, Texas. His parents were Joseph Alderson Bobbitt (1858–1937), a native of Summersville in Nicholas County in south central West Virginia, and the former Laura Abigail Duff, originally from McNairy County in southwestern Tennessee, home of the subsequent Sheriff Buford Pusser. Joseph Alderson came with family members by covered wagon to Texas from Missouri. Bobbitt's mother died in December 1895. Almost exactly a year later, Joseph Bobbitt married 23-year-old Irene Ficklin. By 1913, Robert Lee Bobbitt, at twenty-five, was living in the family home and working on the plantation with eighteen other persons, including for a time his paternal grandfather, Captain James Tolliver Bobbitt (1836–1928) and grandmother, the former Malinda Catherine Alderson. Young Bobbitt worked in the cotton fields, where the crop was gathered and bailed and then loaded on a horse-drawn wagon. Bobbitt became particularly close to a younger half-brother, James Ficklin Bobbitt, later an attorney in Houston.
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