US Congressman. He was a United States Representative from the State of Virginia. He was born one of three children as Robert Malone Bugg in Boydton, Virginia, to John Bugg III (1776-1844), and his wife Sarah Virginia Malone Bugg (1778-1851), on January 20, 1805. He was educated locally in the common public schools and later moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, where he taught school beginning in 1825 and continuing for many years. He then moved to Giles County, Tennessee, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He then entered politics and served as a Justice of the Peace in 1840. He also served as a Member of the Tennessee State House of Representatives from 1851 to 1852. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Meredith Poindexter Gentry (1809-1866), on March 4, 1853. A Member of the Whig Party, he then served Tennessee's 7th District (Thirty-Third Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1854. After his term in the United States Congress had expired, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative John Vines Wright (1828-1908). After leaving the United States Congress he became involved in agricultural pursuits and was a slave owner. He later served as a Member of the Tennessee State Senate from 1871 to 1872. He passed away in Lynnville, Tennessee, on February 18, 1887, at the age of 82, and he was buried in Laird-McLaurine Cemetery in Lynnville, Tennessee. He was married to Martha Patsy Laird Bugg (1807-1893), with whom he had seven children, Anna Marie Bugg (1830-1844), Zachariah Pennington Bugg (1832-1887), John Laird Bugg (1834-1886), Sarah Elizabeth Bugg (1835-1923), Robert Malone Bugg (1838-1928), Henry Martin Bugg (1840-1919), and Samantha Mance Bugg (1843-).