George M. Robeson

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George M. Robeson

George Maxwell Robeson (born March 16, 1829 in Oxford , Warren County , New Jersey , †  September 27, 1897 in Trenton , New Jersey) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). He served under President Ulysses S. Grant , the Office of the US Navy Minister .

Robeson studied law and was initially a prosecutor in Camden County . During the Civil War , he was appointed Brigadier General in the US Army by the Governor of New Jersey . In this role he led a training camp for soldiers in Woodbury . After the war he was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1867 to 1869 .

President Grant brought Robeson into his cabinet as the successor to Adolph E. Borie , who had resigned after a few months as Secretary of the Navy . With the end of Grant's presidency on March 4, 1877, Robeson also left the government.

In 1876 he was the Republican candidate for election to the US Senate , but he failed against the Democrat John R. McPherson . For a short time he worked again as a lawyer in New Jersey. In 1878 Robeson was elected to the US House of Representatives for the first electoral district of New Jersey , to which he was a member from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1883. As a result, he returned to his law firm in New Jersey before he died in 1897.

The Robeson Canal in the Arctic Ocean is named after him.

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SURNAME Robeson, George M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robeson, George Maxwell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1897
Place of death Trenton , New Jersey