Question: What famous parliamentarian was a consultant to the board of engineers that designed the Galveston seawall after the hurricane of 1900?
Answer: Henry Martyn Robert, author of Robert’s Rules of Order, which was first published in 1876.
Born in South Carolina in 1837, Roberts attended West Point and became a prominent engineer, contributing to river and harbor improvement projects throughout the country. President Grover Cleveland appointed him to a board tasked with recommending a location for a port on the western Gulf Coast, settling on Galveston as the only suitable site.
