{{Short description|American politician}} {{Other people|Ernest Roberts}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ernest W. Roberts | image = Ernest W Roberts Massachusetts Congressman.png | caption = Ernest W. Roberts circa 1908<ref name="whoswho1908p20">{{Citation| title =Who's Who in State Politics, 1908 | page = 20 | publisher=Practical Politics | location = Boston, MA | year = 1908}}</ref>

| office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1899 | term_end1 = March 3, 1917 | predecessor1 = [[William Emerson Barrett]] | successor1 = [[Alvan T. Fuller]] | constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 7th congressional district|7th district]] (1899–1913)<br>[[Massachusetts's 9th congressional district|9th district]] (1913–17)

|order2 = Member of the Massachusetts Senate<ref name="whoswho1908p20"/><br>First Suffolk District<ref name="Bridgman1897p118">{{Citation |last = Bridgman|first=Arthur Milnor| year = 1897 | title = A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, Volume VI |page =118 | publisher=A. M. Bridgman | location = Stoughton, MA }}</ref> |term_start2 = 1897 |term_end2 = 1898 |president2 = |predecessor2 = Joseph Brewster Maccabe<ref name="Bridgman1896p131">{{Citation |last = Bridgman|first=Arthur Milnor| year = 1896 | title = A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, Volume V |page =131 | publisher=A. M. Bridgman | location = Stoughton, MA }}</ref> |successor2 =

|order3 = Member of the Massachusetts<br> House of Representatives<ref name="whoswho1908p20"/> |term_start3 = 1894 |term_end3 = 1896 |predecessor3 = |successor3 =

|order4 = City of Chelsea<br>City Council<ref name="whoswho1908p20"/> |term_start4 = 1887 |term_end4 = 1888 |predecessor4 = |successor4 =

| birth_date = November 22, 1858 | birth_place = [[Madison, Maine|East Madison, Maine]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1924|09|27|1858|11|22}} | death_place = | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = [[Sara Weeks Roberts]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Highland Military Academy, Boston University Law School | occupation = | profession = Attorney | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Ernest William Roberts''' (November 22, 1858 – February 27, 1924) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

Born in [[Madison, Maine|East Madison, Maine]], Roberts attended the public schools in [[Chelsea, Massachusetts]]. He was graduated from [[Highland Military Academy]], [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], in 1877, and from the law school of [[Boston University]]. Roberts was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1881 and then practiced in Boston. He served as member of the city council of [[Chelsea, Massachusetts|Chelsea]] in 1887 and 1888. He served as member of the state [[Massachusetts House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] in 1894 and 1896. He served in the state [[Massachusetts Senate|Senate]] in 1897 and 1898.

Roberts was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[56th United States Congress|Fifty-sixth]] and to the eight succeeding Congresses. He represented the 7th Massachusetts congressional district from March 4, 1899, until March 3, 1913, and, after redistricting, represented the 9th Massachusetts congressional district from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1917.<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=49 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He was chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims ([[61st United States Congress|Sixty-first]] Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1916, losing with 16,765 votes to [[Alvan T. Fuller]], another Republican running as an Independent, with 17,079.<ref>{{cite book|title=Congressional Directory, 66th Congress, 2nd Session |year=1920 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8g-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46|last1=Congress |first1=United States }}</ref>

Roberts was named a Regent of the [[Smithsonian Institution]] December 1913 and reappointed to another term two years later.

After leaving Congress he practiced law in Washington, D.C., until his death on February 27, 1924. He was buried in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Everett, Massachusetts)|Woodlawn Cemetery]], [[Everett, Massachusetts]].

==See also== * [[119th Massachusetts General Court (1898)]]

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===Bibliography=== *''Who's who in State Politics, 1908'' Practical Politics (1908) p.&nbsp;20. {{CongBio|R000311}}

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