Robert R. Hitt
Robert Roberts Hitt | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois | |
| In office December 4, 1882 – September 20, 1906 | |
| Preceded by | Robert M. A. Hawk |
| Succeeded by | Frank O. Lowden |
| Constituency | 5th district (1882–1883) 6th district (1883–1895) 9th district (1895–1903) 13th district (1903–1906) |
| 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State | |
| In office May 4, 1881 – December 19, 1881 | |
| President | James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur |
| Preceded by | John Hay |
| Succeeded by | Bancroft Davis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 16, 1834 Urbana, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | September 20, 1906 (aged 72) |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse | Sally Reynolds (m. 1874) |
| Children | R. S. Reynolds Hitt |
| Profession | Secretary, politician |
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Robert Roberts Hitt (January 16, 1834 – September 20, 1906) was an American diplomat and Republican politician from Illinois. He served briefly as assistant secretary of state in the short-lived administration of James A. Garfield but resigned alongside Secretary of State James G. Blaine after Garfield's assassination in 1881. He returned to Washington to represent Northwestern Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1882 to his death. After 1885, he was the senior Republican on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which he chaired from 1889 to 1891 and 1895 until his death in 1906.