Robert L. F. Sikes

Infobox_Congressman
name =Robert L. F. Sikes

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width=200
date of birth=June 3, 1906
place of birth =
date of death=September 28, 1994
state = Florida
district = 3rd
term_start=1941
term_end=1962
preceded =Millard F. Caldwell
succeeded = Claude Pepper
party =Democrat
religion =
spouse = 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 Gulf Breeze to Santa Rosa Island, is named after him.

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External links

* [http://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Bob_Sikes Bob Sikes] at Pensacola wiki