Background
He was born in Annapolis, Illinois to William Henry Roberts and Octavia Bruner.
He was born in Annapolis, Illinois to William Henry Roberts and Octavia Bruner.
He was the Democratic mayor of Terre Haute, Indiana from 1913 to 1915. He was convicted of bribery in 1915 and spent three and a half years in Leavenworth prison of his six-year sentence. He was buried in Saint Joseph"s Cemetery.