Thomas JB Robinson

Thomas JB Robinson

Thomas John Bright Robinson (born August 12, 1868 in New Diggings , Lafayette County , Wisconsin , †  January 27, 1958 in Hampton , Iowa ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Robinson came to Hampton, Iowa, with his parents as a child in 1870. There he attended public schools including Hampton High School . He then worked in agriculture and banking. Between 1907 and 1923 he was President of the Citizens National Bank of Hampton . Robinson was also a member of the Hampton Education Committee and a curator of Cornell College .

Robinson was a member of the Republican Party , for which he sat in the Iowa Senate from 1912 to 1916 . During this time he also attended many of the regional Republican party conventions in Iowa. In the 1922 congressional election, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Burton E. Sweet on March 4, 1923 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . His last term in office was overshadowed by the Great Depression. In the last few weeks of his time in the House of Representatives, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was passed there. It was about the reorganization of the beginning of the terms of office of the President and the Congress.

In the 1932 election, Robinson was defeated by Democrat Albert C. Willford . This election result was then in the federal trend in favor of the Democrats, who also won the presidential election of that year with Franklin D. Roosevelt . After leaving the House of Representatives, Robinson withdrew from politics. In the following years he became involved in the real estate and investment industry. Thomas Robinson died on January 27, 1958 in his home town of Hampton at the age of 89.

Web links

• Thomas JB Robinson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas JB Robinson in the database of Find a Grave (English)