Robert R. Hitt

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Robert Roberts Hitt
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois
In office March 4, 1903 – September 20, 1906
Preceded by	Vespasian Warner
Succeeded by	Frank Orren Lowden
Constituency	13th district
In office March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1903
Preceded by	Hamilton K. Wheeler
Succeeded by	Henry Sherman Boutell
Constituency	9th district
In office March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1895
Preceded by	Thomas J. Henderson
Succeeded by	Edward D. Cooke
Constituency	6th district
In office December 4, 1882 – March 3, 1883
Preceded by	Robert M. A. Hawk
Succeeded by	Reuben Ellwood
Constituency	5th district
13th United States Assistant Secretary of State
In office May 4, 1881 – December 19, 1881
President	James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur
Preceded by	John Hay
Succeeded by	J.C. Bancroft Davis
Personal details
Born	(1834-01-16)January 16, 1834 Urbana, Ohio, U.S.
Died	September 20, 1906(1906-09-20) (aged 72) Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Sally Reynolds (m. 1874)
Children	R. S. Reynolds Hitt
Profession	Secretary, politician
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Robert Roberts Hitt (January 16, 1834 – September 20, 1906) was an American diplomat and Republican politician from Illinois. He served briefly as assistant secretary of state in the short-lived administration of James A. Garfield but resigned alongside Secretary of State James G. Blaine after Garfield's assassination in 1881. He returned to Washington to represent Northwestern Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1882 to his death. After 1885, he was the senior Republican on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which he chaired from 1889 to 1891 and 1895 until his death in 1906.