Robert Ligon McWhorter was an American planter and politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1847 to 1861, and then switched to serving as a Republican in both houses of the Georgia General Assembly from 1868 to 1884. He was the first Republican to hold the seat of Speaker of the Georgia House.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the Georgia House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 19, 1819
- Died
- May 20, 1908
