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.
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.
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