| Birth: | Nov. 4, 1804
Bennington
Bennington County
Vermont, USA | | Death: | Apr. 25, 1860
Charleston
Charleston County
South Carolina, USA | 
Grandson of Governor and US Senator Moses Robinson. Grandnephew of US Senator Jonathan Robinson. Graduate, Williams College, 1824. Studied law, admitted to bar, 1827. Practicing attorney. Vermont House, 1832-33. Vermont Senate, 1838-39. Political aspirations thwarted by fracturing of Democratic party over slavery. Married Mrs. Julietta Staniford Robinson, widow of William Robinson, October, 1847. No children. Governor, 1853-54. Selected by Legislature when Robinson as Democratic nominee, Erastus Fairbanks as Whig and a Free Soil candidate all failed to receive Constitutionally required 50 percent of popular vote. Last Democrat elected Governor until 1960, a streak of Republican Governors that lasted more than 100 years. Delegate, Democratic national convention, 1860. Died while attending convention. Death attributed to apoplexy.
(bio by: Bill McKern)
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Old Bennington Cemetery
Bennington
Bennington County
Vermont, USA |
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Record added: Oct 05, 2005
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