Robert Todd Lytle

{{Infobox officeholder

|birthname= Robert Todd Lytle

|name = Robert T. Lytle

|image name=

|state= Ohio

|district= 1st

|party= Jacksonian

|term_start = March 4, 1833

|term_end = March 10, 1834

|term_start1 = December 27, 1834

|term_end1 = March 3, 1835

|preceded= James Findlay

|succeeded1= Bellamy Storer

|state_house2=Ohio

|district2=Hamilton County

|term_start2= December 1, 1828

|term_end2=December 6, 1829

|preceded2=Elijah Hayward
John C. Short
Peter Bell

|succeeded2=Samuel Reese
Alexander Duncan
David T. Disney
George Graham

|alongside2=Elijah Hayward
Alexander Duncan

|birth_date= May 19, 1804

|birth_place= Williamsburg, Ohio

|death_date= December 22, 1839 (age 35)

|death_place=New Orleans, Louisiana

| spouse= Elizabeth Haines

| children = William, Josephine, Elizabeth Haines

| restingplace = Spring Grove Cemetery

}}

Robert Todd Lytle (May 19, 1804 – December 22, 1839) was a 19th-century lawyer and politician who represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1833 to 1835.

Early life and career

Lytle was born in Williamsburg, Ohio, a nephew of John Rowan. He attended the uncommon schools and Cincinnati College, and studied law in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was admitted to the bar in 1824. He started professional practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Married Elizabeth Haines of New Jersey November 30, 1825. They had a son William Haines Lytle, and two daughters, Josephine R., and Elizabeth Haines Lytle.{{cite book |title=Poems of William Haines Lytle |first=William Haines |last=Lytle |authorlink=William Haines Lytle |editor1-first=William H. |editor1-last=Venable|editor1-link=William Henry Venable |year=1894|publisher=The Robert Clarke Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/poemsofwilliamha00lytl/page/4 4] |location=Cincinnati |url=https://archive.org/details/poemsofwilliamha00lytl}}

He was elected county prosecuting attorney, and a member of the State house of representatives in 1828 and 1829.

=Congress =

He was then elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1833, until March 10, 1834, when he resigned. He was reelected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation and served from December 27, 1834, to March 3, 1835.

=Later career=

After running as an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress, Lytle resumed his law practice, focusing principally on real estate law. Lytle was an opponent of free black men and encouraged mob attacks against African Americans in Cincinnati. In 1836 he led rally that encouraged violence against African Americans, stating to the crowd that they should "castrate the men and the women!" He served as Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory in 1834–1838,{{cite book |title=Centennial history of Cincinnati and representative citizens |volume=1 |first=Charles Theodore |last=Greve |page=673 |publisher=Biographical Publishing Company |location=Chicago |year=1904 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJxABLtxX60C&q=Federal&pg=PA673}} and major general of Ohio Militia in 1838.