Robert Corbett is former U.S Representative from Pennsylvania. He was first elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941). After being unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940, he served on the staff of Senator James J. Davis in Pittsburgh. He was then elected to the Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from January 3, 1945, until his death in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1971.