Robert R. Heider

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Robert Ray Heider (April 13, 1928 – January 15, 2015) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Wisconsin. He was born in Moline, Illinois, and grew up in Milwaukee, where he attended Bay View High School. He studied at Michigan Technological University and the University of Minnesota, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and received a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He lived in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, and practiced law. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, worked as a Japanese linguist in Tokyo after the war, and was a special agent with the Counterintelligence Corps during the Korean War. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1957 as a Republican. He died in West Allis, Wisconsin.