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SIKES, Robert Lee Fulton, 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 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
on October 19, 1944, to enter the United States Army during the Second World War; delegate,
Interparliamentary Conference in Warsaw, 1959; elected to the Seventy-ninth and to the sixteen
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1979); was not a candidate for reelection in
1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Crestview, Fla., until his death on September 28,
1994.
BibliographySikes, Bob. He-Coon, the Bob Sikes Story. Pensacola, Fla.: Perdido Bay Press, 1984.
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