Robert McKnight

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Robert McKnight (January 20, 1820 – October 25, 1885) was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.

Robert McKnight was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and a private school at Xenia, Ohio. He graduated from Princeton College in 1839. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh. He was city councilman from 1847 to 1849.

McKnight was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses. He served his district during the American Civil War.

After his final term in 1863, he resumed the practice of his profession and died in Pittsburgh in 1885. Interment was in Allegheny Cemetery.

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• Robert McKnight at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Samuel A. Purviance

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district 1859-1863

Succeeded by James K. Moorhead