{{Short description|American politician (1855–1905)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Robert H. Snyder | image = | image size = | caption = | office = 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana | party = Democratic Party | term_start = 1896 | term_end = 1900 | governor = Murphy J. Foster | preceded = Hiram R. Lott | succeeded = Albert Estopinal, Sr. | office2 = Louisiana State Representative from Tensas Parish | term_start2 = 1890 | term_end2 = 1896 | preceded2 = R. C. McCullough | succeeded2 = A. E. Newton | office3 = Louisiana State Representative from Tensas Parish | term_start3 = 1904 | term_end3 = 1905 | preceded3 = A. E. Newton<br /> Thomas M. Wade | succeeded3 = Samuel W. Martien | office4 = Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives | term_start4 = 1904 | term_end4 = 1905 | preceded4 = Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. | succeeded4 = Joseph W. Hyams | birth_date = July 13, 1855 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1905|11|17|1855|7|13}} | death_place = | resting_place = Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi | occupation = | spouse = Ella Carson Snyder | children = | relations = Jefferson B. Snyder (brother) | footnotes = }}
'''Robert H. Snyder''' (July 13, 1855 – November 17, 1905)<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Official Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives|author=Louisiana. Legislature. House of Representatives|date=1906|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3SYlAQAAIAAJ|access-date=June 19, 2015}}</ref> was a Democratic politician from Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
Snyder served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for two nonconsecutive terms from 1890 to 1896 and from 1904 until his death in office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2012.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012: Tensas Parish|publisher=legis.la.gov|access-date=July 14, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235758/http://www.legis.la.gov/legisdocs/members/h1812-2012.pdf|archive-date=October 4, 2013|page=280}}</ref>
From 1896 to 1900, Snyder was lieutenant governor under Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr., a favorite of the planter class. During this time, the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1898 was held.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FjcMAQAAMAAJ&q=W.+B.+Boggs+of+Louisiana+Senate&pg=PA62|title=The convention of '98: a complete work on the greatest political event in Louisiana's history|publisher=Democratic State Central Committee|location=New Orleans, Louisiana|date=1898|page=65 total|access-date=March 23, 2015}}</ref> Snyder was defeated for lieutenant governor in 1900 by future U.S. Representative Albert Estopinal, Sr., of St. Bernard Parish.
Snyder's younger brother, Jefferson B. Snyder, was a native of Tensas Parish and district attorney from 1904 to 1945 in Tallulah in Madison Parish.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11082006-162523/unrestricted/jmreonasdiss.pdf|title=James Matthew Reonas, ''Once Proud Princes: Planters and Plantation Culture in Louisiana's Northeast Delta, From the First World War Through the Great Depression''|publisher=Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Ph.D. dissertation, December 2006, p. 268|access-date=July 19, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054752/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11082006-162523/unrestricted/jmreonasdiss.pdf|archive-date=September 21, 2013}}</ref>
Snyder is interred at Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = Hiram R. Lott | title = Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana<br/>Robert H. Snyder | years = 1896–1900 | after = Albert Estopinal, Sr. }} {{succession box | before = R. C. McCullough | title = Louisiana State Representative from Tensas Parish<br/>Robert H. Snyder | years = 1890–1896 | after = A. E. Newton }} {{succession box | before = Two members:<br /> A. E. Newton<br /> Thomas W. Wade | title = Louisiana State Representative from Tensas Parish<br/>Robert H. Snyder | years = 1904–1906 | after = Samuel W. Martien }} {{succession box | before = Jared Y. Sanders, Sr., of St. Mary Parish | title = Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Tensas Parish<br/>Robert H. Snyder | years = 1904–1906 | after = Joseph W. Hyams of West Baton Rouge Parish }} {{s-end}}
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