Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Martyn Robert

He received a tombstone promotion to brigadier general and was appointed Chief of Engineers on April 30, 1901, just before he retired from the Army on May 2, 1901. Robert was president of the Board of Engineers from 1895 to 1901. As Southwest Division Engineer from 1897 to 1901, Robert studied how to deepen the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River. From 1890 to 1891 he served as a member of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia. He subsequently improved the harbors of Oswego, New York, Philadelphia, and Long Island Sound and constructed locks and dams on the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers. He then spent two years improving rivers in Oregon and Washington and six years developing the harbors of Green Bay and other northern Wisconsin and Michigan ports. Robert served as Engineer of the Army's Division of the Pacific from 1867 to 1871. In the American Civil War, he was assigned to the Corps of Engineers and worked on the defenses of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and several New England ports.

Under command of Silas Casey during the Pig War, he built fortifications on San Juan Island. Robert was nominated to West Point and graduated fourth in his class in 1857, becoming a military engineer. Robert's father, Reverend Joseph Thomas Robert, later became the first president of historically black Morehouse College, where there is a dormitory on the campus named after him. Robert was born in Robertville, South Carolina, and raised in Ohio, where his father moved the family because of his strong opposition to slavery. In 1876, Robert published the first edition of his manual of parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order, which remains today the most common parliamentary authority in the United States. Henry Martyn Robert (– May 11, 1923) was an American soldier, engineer, and author.

Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Martyn Robert