Background
Houston was born in Charlemont, Massachusetts on August 7, 1820.
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Robert Samuel Houston
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He received a common school education, and became a stonecutter. He worked for one employer in Meriden, Connecticut from 1851 until moving to Wisconsin in September 1857, eventually settling on a farm in Pleasant Prairie, where he took up dairy farming, selling butter and cheese (winning medals with both). And raised hay, corn and oats.
He died of edema in Milwaukee on January 5, 1902.
Houston served as chairman of the town board for the town of Pleasant Prairie, and as treasurer of his local school district. He drew 1,005 votes to 777 for Republican former state senator Francis Paddock (Republican incumbent Asahel Farr was not a candidate).
He was assigned to the standing committee on railroads. He did not seek re-election, and was succeeded by Republican Rouse Simmons.
He was assigned to the committee on agriculture.
He did not seek re-election, and was succeeded by fellow Democrat Daniel A. Mahoney.
Membership
He was first elected to the Assembly in 1873 to represent Kenosha County as a member of the Liberal Reform Party, a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, and Grangers formed in 1873, which secured the election of one Governor of Wisconsin and a number of state legislators.
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Political Party
Democratic party