Thomas J.B. Robinson 1868-1958

ROBINSON, GRAHAM, CLINTON, THORNTON, FRENCH, SNIFFEN, BURNS, KIMBALL

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Date: 5/7/2012 at 01:37:56

Thomas J.B. Robinson, former congressman, died at Hampton, Iowa, January 27, 1958; born near New Diggings, Wisconsin, August 12, 1868, son of Isaac and Eliza Graham Robinson; moved to Hampton with his parents in 1870, attended public school and graduated from high school there; entered the banking business at eighteen; married to Belle H. Clinton June 15, 1888, a daughter of the Reverend John W. Clinton; became president of the Citizens National Bank of Hampton, director of the Coulter Savings Bank of Coulter and a director of the Alexander Savings Bank of Alexander; elected as a Republican to the Iowa state senate in 1912 and represented the Forty-third district during the 35th and 36th terms of the Legislature; served as president of the Hampton board of education, member of the Hampton library board and a trustee of Cornell College at Mount Vernon, attained the rank of Shriner in the Masonic order; member of the Methodist church, delegate to general conferences of the Methodist church, Baltimore, in 1908, Minneapolis, 1912, Saratoga Springs, 1916; delegate to Ecumenical conference in Toronto, 1911, and London, 1921; member of the Hampton city council, chairman of the Franklin county war activities during World War I; served as congressman from the Third district of Iowa from 1923 to 1933 actively supporting the McNary-Haugen bill and other farm relief measures; survived by two sons Walter T. Robinson of Des Moines, and Lee C. Robinson of Santa Fe, New Mexico; two daughters, Mrs. F. C. (Jessie) Thornton of Hampton and Mrs. F. C. (Marguerite) French of Wayne, Illinois; a third daughter, Mrs. W. C. (Dorothy) Clinton, died several years ago; and three sisters survive, Mrs. J. H. Sniffen and Mrs. Ruth Burns of Los Angeles and Mrs. J. H. Kimball of Berkeley, California.

~Annals of Iowa, Vol XXXIV, April 1958, Iowa's Notable Dead, pg 81