He was born in
Annapolis, Illinois to William Henry Roberts and Octavia Bruner. On July 3, 1889, in
Indianapolis, Indiana he married Mary Grace Tiernan. He was the Democratic mayor of
Terre Haute, Indiana from 1913 to 1915. He was convicted of bribery in 1915 and spent three and a half years in
Leavenworth prison of his six-year sentence. He was buried in
St. Joseph's Cemetery. ==See also==