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Robertson (THOMAS M an American economist)

THOMAS M., an American economist, born in Alamance M., an school. From 1893 to 1895 he was a mem- co., N. C., in 1857. Until 1887 he taught ber of the N.

C. house of representatives; from 1895 to 1897 he was connected with the United States Treasury Department, ment of Labor. From 1904 to 1915 he was and from 1897 to 1903 with the Departspecial examiner in the Bureau of Corporations, in charge of investigations of water power, cotton and lumber.

From mist and a member of the Joint Board of Review of the Federal Trade Commission, becoming in 1917 chief economist. 1915 to 1917 he was assistant chief econo- ERT), a British military officer. He