John Marshall Robsion Junior

John Marshall Robsion Jr. (born August 28, 1904 in Barbourville , Kentucky , †  February 14, 1990 in Fort Lauderdale , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1959 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Robsion was the son of John M. Robsion (1873-1948), who between 1919 and 1948 represented the state of Kentucky in both houses of Congress with interruptions . The younger Robsion attended Union College Academy in Barbourville until 1919 . He then studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC There he also enrolled at the National War College . Between 1919 and 1928 he was employed as a secretary to Congress. After studying law at the same time at George Washington University and being admitted to the bar in 1926, he settled in Louisville in 1928 . He returned to Washington the following year. There he headed the legal department of the federal pension insurance between 1929 and 1935. He then returned to Louisville to practice law again.

During World War II , Robsion served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946 . He was used in North Africa, Italy and Austria . From 1946 to 1952 he was a judge in Kentucky. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party , whose legal advisor he served at the state level between 1938 and 1942. In 1952, 1956 and 1960 he took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Dwight D. Eisenhower and later Richard Nixon were nominated as presidential candidates.

In the congressional elections of 1952 Robsion was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Kentucky, where he succeeded Thruston Ballard Morton on January 3, 1953 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . These were determined by the events of the Cold War and domestic political unrest in connection with the civil rights movement . In the elections of 1958 Robsion was defeated by the Democrat Frank W. Burke . In 1959 he ran for governor of Kentucky, but lost to Bert T. Combs . In the following years Robsion worked again as a lawyer. He was also the curator of the Kentucky Jockey Club . He lived alternately in Louisville and Fort Lauderdale, where he died on February 14, 1990.

Web links

• John Marshall Robsion junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Marshall Robsion junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)