Born April 2, 1956, in Easton, PA, he was a son of the In 1868 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. Robert Brown Elliott (18421884) was an African-American member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina, serving from 1871-1874. Birth abt 1862 - Maryland. Robert Elliott of South Carolina left the House of Representatives in 1874 and resumed his career in the South Carolina state house where he became speaker. document.write('