Robert Newton Harper

Colonel Robert Newton Harper (January 31, 1861 - September 23, 1940) was president of the District of Columbia Pharmaceutical Association and of the National Association of Druggists and Commissioner of Pharmacy of the District of Columbia.

[1] He was chairman of the one hundred and sixty member Presidential Inaugural Committee for Woodrow Wilson in 1917.

He appointed the first woman to an inaugural committee, Mrs. James S. Boggs.

[2] He died at Georgetown University Hospital on September 23, 1940, in Washington, DC at age 79.

He was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.