sentences:  Roberts was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1965).He was wounded in the 1954 U.S. Capitol shooting incident.Having been a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in "Brown v. Board of Education", he voted against H.R.