Education
Marshall University.
Marshall University.
Robb had been mayor of South Charleston, West Virginia, from 1975 until leaving office in 2007, making him the state"s longest serving mayor. In 2004, he entered a six candidate primary for the Republican nomination for Governor of West Virginia, finishing fifth. In an effort to unify the party, the winning candidate had the state convention appoint the five losers as the state"s five Electors in the Electoral College, rather than the traditional slate of party loyalists.
Robb then appeared on Cable News Network and announced that he was a "free agent" and opposed the policies of George West. Bush.
He announced that he would not cast the "deciding vote" for him. In the end, the electoral results were not close and Robb chose not to be a "faithless Elector".
He then changed his registration to Democratic and declared his opposition to the war in Iraq. He ran for the nomination for the United States Congress in the state"s second district on a "peace platform" against three other candidates and finished a distant third.
Since leaving the mayor"s office, he has represented several small cities in the state as municipal counsel
In 2010, Robb challenged incumbent state senator Erik Wells, but lost in the Democratic primary.
He first ventured into statewide politics in the unpaid chairman of the state Republican Party for a brief period in the early 1990s. This was only the first seriously contended Republican primary for a major office since 1988 and one of only four since 1930, when that party lost control of the state.
