Thomas Robinson, Jr.

Thomas Robinson Jr. (* 1800 in Georgetown, Delaware, † October 28, 1843 ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Robinson attended the public schools of his home and then the Princeton College, today's Princeton University. After a subsequent law degree in 1823 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in his hometown of Georgetown to work in his new profession. In 1825 he became treasurer in Sussex County. Between 1831 and 1832 he worked at the Tax Court of Delaware.

Politically, Robinson was a member of the Democratic Party, founded by Andrew Jackson. In the congressional elections of 1838, he was with a narrow margin of only 58 votes against incumbent John J. Milligan of the Whig Party in the House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he was able to complete only one legislative period to March 3, 1841 with 46% because he lost in the elections of 1840 to 54 % of the vote against the Whig George B. Rodney.

Thomas Robinson died two and a half years after his retirement from Congress in October 1843, in his birthplace of George Town.