John Seaton Robinson

John Seaton Robinson ( born May 4, 1856 in Wheeling, Virginia, † May 25 1903 in Madison, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Robinson was born in 1856 in Wheeling, which at that time was still part of Virginia, and is now part of West Virginia. He attended the common schools and then studied law. After his made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar he began in Madison to work in this profession. Between 1886 and 1888, and again from 1890 to 1892 he was district attorney in Madison County. After that, he was 1893-1895 Judge in the ninth judicial district of Nebraska.

Robinson was a member of the Democratic Party and was elected as its candidate in 1898 in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took over from the March 4, 1899 Samuel Maxwell. After a re-election in 1900, he could remain until March 3, 1903 Congress. In the congressional elections of 1902, but he was inferior to the Republican John Jay McCarthy.

John Robinson died just months after his resignation from the Congress on May 25, 1903.