Robert Hermann Foerderer was an American businessman and politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's at-large congressional district from 1901 to 1903 and Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district in 1903.
Image from Robert H. Foerderer, Late a Representative-elect from Pennsylvania published in 1905.
Foerderer purchased the summer home of Charles Macalester on the Delaware River and renamed it Glen Foerd
Robert H. Foerderer Mausoleum in Laurel Hill Cemetery
Pennsylvania's at-large congressional district
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania elected its United States representatives at-large on a general ticket for the first and third United States Congresses. General ticket representation was prohibited by the 1842 Apportionment Bill and subsequent legislation, most recently in 1967.
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