Senator Charles Spittal Robb
Charles Spittal Robb, son-in-law of late President Lyndon Baines Johnson, served as a Democrat senator from Virginia. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 26, 1939. He attended Cornell University and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1961. Robb received a law degree from University of Virginia in 1973 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps between 1961 and 1970. He worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1974 and performed private practice of law in 1974.
Robb became lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1978 to 1982 and governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986. He resumed the practice of law in Virginia and was elected as senator in 1988, to which he was reelected in 1994 and served from January 3, 1989, to January 3, 2001. He unsuccessfully ran for reelection in 2000.
He served as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the 102nd Congress and has been distinguished professor of law and public policy at George Mason University since 2001. Robb was appointed by President George W. Bush as co-chair of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction from 2004 to 2005. He currently resides in McLean, Virginia.
