Robert N. Page
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Robert Newton Page (October 26, 1859 - October 3, 1933) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born in Cary, North Carolina, Page attended the Cary High School and Bingham Military School, Mebane, North Carolina. He moved to Aberdeen, North Carolina, in 1880 and engaged in the lumber business near Aberdeen until 1900. He served as mayor of Aberdeen 1890-1898. Treasurer of the Aberdeen &. Asheboro Railroad Co. 1894-1902. He moved to Biscoe, North Carolina, in 1897. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1901 and 1902.
Page was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1917). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916. He returned to Aberdeen in 1920. He engaged in banking, and was president of the Page Trust Co.. He died in Aberdeen, North Carolina, October 3, 1933. He was interred in Old Bethesda Cemetery. His older brother was Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to Great Britain.
