Robert L. F. Sikes

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Robert L. F. Sikes

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 3rd district
In office 1941 – 1962
Preceded by	Millard F. Caldwell
Succeeded by	Claude Pepper

Born	June 3, 1906
Died	September 28, 1994
Political party	Democratic

Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (June 3, 1906 - September 28, 1994) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.

Born in Isabella, near Sylvester, Georgia, Sikes attended the public schools. B.S., University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1927. MS., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1929. He engaged in the publishing business at Crestview, Florida from 1933 to 1946. He served in the State house of representatives 1936-1940.

Sikes was 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. He served as delegate, Interparliamentary Conference in Warsaw, 1959.

Sikes was elected to the Seventy-ninth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1979). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress. He was a resident of Crestview, Florida, until his death on September 28, 1994.

The Bob Sikes Bridge, which connects the Navarre area to upper Santa Rosa county is named after him.