Robert Lee Wadley (December 27, 1925 – April 23, 2004) was an American politician. He was born to Roy Wadley and Mildred Lorena Johnson on December 27, 1925, and raised in Harrison, Arkansas. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Robert Wadley attended the University of Louisville and the University of Arkansas. He then moved to Claremore, Oklahoma, to work with his father before joining a sales company based in Tulsa. Wadley was active in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks as well as the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. He was a Presbyterian.