Milton S. Robinson

Milton Stapp Robinson ( born April 20, 1832 in Versailles, Ripley County, Indiana; † July 28, 1892 in Anderson, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Milton Robinson enjoyed only limited primary education. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1851 admitted to the bar he began in Anderson to work in this profession. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1856 he was in the presidential election of the electors of John C. Frémont. In 1861, he headed for a short time the prison in Michigan City. During the Civil War he rose to the brevet brigadier general from lieutenant colonel. He served in an infantry unit in the army of the Union.

Between 1866 and 1870, Robinson was a member of the Senate of Indiana. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated to the President Ulysses S. Grant for re-election. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Morton C. Hunter on March 4, 1875. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. In 1878 he gave up another candidacy.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Robinson practiced as a lawyer again. In 1891 he became a judge at the Court of Appeals of Indiana. Milton Robinson died on April 20, 1892 in Anderson, where he was also buried.