ELLIOTT, Robert Brown (1842-1884)
Republican of South Carolina 
3rd congressional district
Served in House 1871-1874
Biography
Representative from South Carolina; born in England., August 11, 1842; attended public school in England; journalist; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced in Columbia, S.C.; member of the South Carolina state constitutional convention in 1868; member of the South Carolina state house of representatives from July 6, 1868, to October 23, 1870; assistant adjutant general of South Carolina 1869-1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1871, until his resignation, effective November 1, 1874; again a member of the South Carolina state house of representatives 1874-1876, and served as speaker; unsuccessful candidate for election as attorney general of South Carolina in 1876; moved to New Orleans, La., in 1881 and practiced law until his death there on August 9, 1884; interment in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
