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Affiliation | Republican |
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Name | John M. Robsion |
Address | Barbourville, Kentucky , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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January 02, 1873
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Died | February 17, 1948
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Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
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Info | born near Berlin, Bracken County, Ky., January 2, 1873; attended the common schools, the National Northern University in Ada, Ohio, and Holbrook College in Knoxville, Tenn.; graduated from the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, and from the law department of Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1900; taught in the public schools of Kentucky for several years and in Union College, Barbourville, Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice at Barbourville, Ky., president of the First National Bank of Barbourville, Ky.; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until January 10, 1930, when he resigned to serve as United States Senator; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses); appointed on January 9, 1930, as a Republican to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick M. Sackett and served from January 11, 1930, to November 30, 1930; unsuccessful candidate for election to the vacancy and also for the full term in 1930; resumed the practice of law; elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Barbourville, Ky., February 17, 1948; interment in Barbourville Cemetery.
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