David Fullerton Robison

David Fullerton Robison (* May 28, 1816 in Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, † June 24, 1859 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Robison was the nephew of Congressman David Fullerton ( 1772-1843 ). He attended the common schools and taught himself afterwards for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1843 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Chambersburg to work in this profession. In the congressional elections of 1854 he was short-lived as the candidate of the opposition party in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Lyon Russell on March 4, 1855. Since he resigned in 1856 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives David Robison again practiced as a lawyer. He died on June 24, 1859 in Chambersburg. Presumably, he withdrew his deadly disease by a food poisoning at the National Hotel in Washington. End of February 1857, he had participated there at a dinner in honor of President-elect James Buchanan. Subsequently, many of the participants affected. Even Buchanan was affected. Thus he almost can not attend his inauguration on March 4, 1857. Among other things, John A. Quitman died, a congressman from Mississippi, in the poisoning. Also Robison probably succumbed to their long-term consequences.