Robert S. Travis

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{For|the U.S. Air Force general|Robert F. Travis}}

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Robert S. Travis (May 2, 1909 – August 14, 1980) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.

Travis was born in Platteville, Wisconsin.{{cite news|title=Robert S. Travis|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11934367/robert_s_travis_19091980/|newspaper=Monroe Evening Times|date=September 11, 1954|page=6|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 26, 2017}} {{Open access}}{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/travis.html#616.76.84|title=Robert S. Travis|publisher=Political Graveyard|accessdate=2011-12-05}} During World War II, he served in the United States Army crewing a radar truck in the European theater. Travis went to Michigan State University; he was the manager of Irvington Dairy Products on Omaha, Nebraska and was an insurance agent.Wisconsin Blue Book, 1962, Biographical Sketch of Robert Travis, p. 25. His son Robert S. Travis, Jr. also served in the Wisconsin Assembly. He died on August 14, 1980, in Platteville, Wisconsin.Ex-Legislator Travis, 71, dies, Wisconsin State Journal, August 16, 1980, p. 39.