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Robert I. Marshall (né Marchlewicz; October 16, 1946 – March 30, 2024) was an American politician and a Democratic member of the Delaware Senate, representing the 3rd district from 1979 until 2019.
Former lawmaker Robert I. Marshall, who served in the state Senate for four decades, died over the weekend. Marshall began his career in the state Senate shortly after being elected in 1978...
Jun 2, 2007 · Robert Marshall was born in Beaumont, Texas on October 15, 1928 to Helen and Marston (Jake) Marshall. He graduated from Beaumont High School, lettering in football and baseball and then attended the University of the South (Sewanee) & Lamar University on a football scholarship.
Apr 13, 2024 · Senator Marshall passed away peacefully at Christiana Hospital on Saturday, March 30th, 2024, leaving behind a legacy that will continue to inspire generations to come. Sen. Marshall was born...
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Robert Marshall was born on January 2, 1901, in New York City to Louis and Florence Marshall. He was educated in the city, but spent the summers of his youth at his family's summer home in the Adirondack Mountains. Here, Marshall eventually climbed all 46 Adirondack peaks above 4,000 feet. Marshall had decided in his teens that he wanted to be a fo...
In 1929, he took the first of several trips to the remote town of Wiseman, Alaska, beginning a lifelong love affair with the Central Brooks Range in the Alaska wilds. Marshall was one of the first people to champion the importance of this pristine, ecologically vital region. The area now known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge remains a top co...
His call for a new conservation group was heeded in 1935, when he helped co-found The Wilderness Society with his $1,000 gift. He continued to keep the organization solvent and steered its course until his death almost five years later. When the Wilderness Act was signed into law in 1964, one of the very first places to be protected in the new Nati...
Born on January 12, 1901, Robert Marshall was the third of four children in the Marshall family. Parents Louis and Florence Marshall were activist themselves, most well-known for their support of Jewish civil rights. Later their support of civil rights grew beyond just Jewish causes and eventually included Catholics, Indians, Japanese, African ...
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According to one historian, Washington's Marshals were "an able group of men. . .representing on the whole a type that was politically active." During Washington's first administration, Congress created sixteen judicial Districts. The first Marshal in each of these Districts provides a good sample from which to draw generalizations about ...
