American politician
Robert H. Snyder (July 13, 1855 – November 17, 1905)[1] was a Democratic politician from Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
Snyder served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for two nonconsecutive terms from 1890 to 1896 and from 1904 until his death in office.[2]
From 1896 to 1900, Snyder was lieutenant governor under Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr., a favorite of the planter class. During this time, the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1898 was held.[3] Snyder was defeated for lieutenant governor in 1900 by future U.S. Representative Albert Estopinal, Sr., of St. Bernard Parish.
Snyder's younger brother, Jefferson B. Snyder, was a native of Tensas Parish and district attorney from 1904 to 1945 in Tallulah in Madison Parish.[4]
Snyder is interred at Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.
References
- ^ Louisiana. Legislature. House of Representatives (1906). Official Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
- ^ "Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012: Tensas Parish" (PDF). legis.la.gov. p. 280. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2013. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ The convention of '98: a complete work on the greatest political event in Louisiana's history. New Orleans, Louisiana: Democratic State Central Committee. 1898. p. 65 total. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
- ^ James Matthew Reonas, Once Proud Princes: Planters and Plantation Culture in Louisiana's Northeast Delta, From the First World War Through the Great Depression (PDF). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Ph.D. dissertation, December 2006, p. 268. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
