Absalom Willis Robertson (27 May 1887 – 1 November 1971) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Lexington, Virginia. Also known as A. Willis Robertson, he represented Virginia in both the U.S. House and the United States Senate. Robertson was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to Franklin Pierce Robertson and Josephine Ragland Willis. He graduated from the University of Richmond in 1907.

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  • Absalom Willis Robertson (27 May 1887 – 1 November 1971) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Lexington, Virginia. Also known as A. Willis Robertson, he represented Virginia in both the U.S. House and the United States Senate. Robertson was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to Franklin Pierce Robertson and Josephine Ragland Willis. He graduated from the University of Richmond in 1907. Robertson was elected to the Virginia State Senate as a Democrat in 1915 and he served from 1916 to 1922. Robertson served in the United States Army during World War I. Robertson served as Commonwealth Attorney for Rockbridge County, Virginia from 1922 to 1928. Robertson was elected to the House of Representatives in 1932, and was reelected six times. In 1946, he won a special election for the right to complete the final two years of Senator Carter Glass' term and took office on the day after the election. He won the seat in his own right in 1948, and was reelected two more times without serious opposition. Among his legislation is the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 which creates the formula for federal sharing of ammunition tax with states to establish wildlife areas. The program is still in effect and is a primary financing source for wildlife areas. Robertson was a typical Byrd Democrat, and was very conservative on social issues. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs from 1959 until 1966. In 1956, Robertson was one of the 19 senators who signed The Southern Manifesto, condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and the resulting public desegregation. When President Lyndon Johnson sent his wife, Lady Bird, on a train trip through the South to encourage support for the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Robertson was one of four Southern Senators who refused to meet with her on the whistle stop trip. In retaliation, President Johnson personally recruited State Senator William B. Spong, Jr. , a considerably more liberal Democrat, to run against him in the 1966 Democratic primary. By this time, even some Byrd Democrats were moving away from obstinate resistance to integration as espoused by Robertson and the Organization's patriarch, Harry F. Byrd, Sr. Spong defeated Robertson in the primary in one of the biggest upsets in Virginia political history—an event that is considered the beginning of the end of the Byrd Organization's long dominance of Virginia state politics. Willis' best known son is televangelist Pat Robertson.
  • Absalom Willis Robertson war ein US-amerikanischer Rechtsanwalt und vertrat den Bundesstaat Virginia als Abgeordneter im US-Repräsentantenhaus, sowie im US-Senat.
  • Absalom Willis Robertson oli yhdysvaltalainen demokraattisen puolueen poliitikko. Hän istui liittovaltion edustajainhuoneessa vuosina 1933–1946 ja senaatissa 1946–1966. Kuuluisa kristitty julistaja Pat Robertson on Absalom Willis Robertsonin poika.
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  • Absalom Willis Robertson (27 May 1887 – 1 November 1971) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Lexington, Virginia. Also known as A. Willis Robertson, he represented Virginia in both the U.S. House and the United States Senate. Robertson was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to Franklin Pierce Robertson and Josephine Ragland Willis. He graduated from the University of Richmond in 1907.
  • Absalom Willis Robertson war ein US-amerikanischer Rechtsanwalt und vertrat den Bundesstaat Virginia als Abgeordneter im US-Repräsentantenhaus, sowie im US-Senat.
  • Absalom Willis Robertson oli yhdysvaltalainen demokraattisen puolueen poliitikko. Hän istui liittovaltion edustajainhuoneessa vuosina 1933–1946 ja senaatissa 1946–1966. Kuuluisa kristitty julistaja Pat Robertson on Absalom Willis Robertsonin poika.
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