HENRY MARTYN ROBERT
(Henry M. Robert)
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This small booklet was the first describing parliamentary procedures and it rapidly sold 500,000 copies. It has become the bases for legislatures, committees, boards ever since. The Congress and most of the State and local legislatures all are based on it.
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Henry Martyn Robert was an American soldier, engineer, and author. 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.