Thomas J. B. Robinson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas J. B. Robinson

American politician

Date of Birth: 12-Aug-1868

Place of Birth: New Diggings, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jan-1958

Profession: politician, banker

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Thomas J. B. Robinson

  • Thomas John Bright Robinson (August 12, 1868 – January 27, 1958) was a Republican U.S.
  • Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district.
  • Elected in an era in which Republicans held every Iowa U.S.
  • House seat, Robinson served five terms before losing in the 1932 general election. Born in New Diggings, Wisconsin, Robinson moved with his parents to Hampton, Iowa, in 1870.
  • He attended the public schools and the Hampton High School.
  • A farmer, Robinson also served as president of the Citizens National Bank of Hampton from 1907 to 1923, as a member of the Hampton Board of Education, and on the board of trustees of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Robinson was elected to one four-year term in the Iowa Senate in 1912, and served as delegate to many Republican State conventions. In 1922, Robinson was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 3rd congressional district in the U.S.
  • House.
  • During the 1920s, no Democrat was elected to any of Iowa's U.S.
  • House seats, and every incumbent Republican congressman from Iowa who was renominated by their party was elected in the November general election.
  • However, in 1932, the Roosevelt landslide carried many Democrats into the House, and the former Republican majority lost 101 seats.
  • Running for a sixth consecutive term, Robinson lost a close race to Albert C.
  • Willford.
  • Robinson had served in the Sixty-eighth and the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1933. Returning to Iowa, Robinson engaged in the real estate and investment business.
  • He died in Hampton on January 27, 1958, and was interred in Hampton Cemetery.

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