Robert Sidney Burruss Jr. (November 9, 1914 – June 21, 1978) was a state Senator and businessman from Lynchburg, Virginia.

Burruss and his wife, Ada Steptoe Moorman, Buruss attended the public schools, including E.C.

During World War II, Burruss served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, mostly in the European Theater, for five years from 1940 to 1945.

[3] Democrat and lawyer Mosby Perrow Jr. represented Lynchburg (part-time) for two decades in the Virginia state Senate.

However, desegregation following the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education was very controversial, as Virginia's Democratic U.S.

However, Republican Burruss narrowly defeated Dodson in the general election (6904 votes to 6694), and so succeeded Perrow to what was then the 12th senatorial district seat in 1964.