Moses Robinson

Moses Robinson ( born March 22, 1741 Hardwick, Massachusetts, † May 26, 1813 in Bennington, Vermont) was a prominent lawyer and politician from Vermont. In his political career he was governor of the Republic of Vermont and helped with Vermont into the Union as an independent state record. He was also from 1791 to 1796 served as U.S. Senator from Vermont.

Career

Robinson was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, where he spent his childhood. As a young man he pursued classical subjects. 1761, he moved with his family to Bennington, Vermont, where he was an important city citizens was soon. From 1762 to 1781 he served as town clerk (English town clerk ). Meanwhile he studied law, was active in the American independence movement and then served in the rank of colonel in the Vermont militia during the early part of the Revolutionary War. 1778, when Vermont became an independent republic, Robinson was a member of the Governing Council and Chief Justice on the Vermont Supreme Court four years later he was sent as a government middleman in the Continental Congress, there to resolve a border dispute with New York. He was until 1785 the Governing Council and until 1789 served as the Chief Justice when he was governor of Vermont, and thus Thomas Chittenden replaced. Robinson had this position then held until 1790, shortly before Vermont was recognized as a state and admitted to the United States.

Then he was chosen by the Vermont General Assembly in the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1791 to 1797 a term. He was associated with the anti - administration camp and later in his tenure with the newly founded Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson. After retiring from the Senate, Robinson moved back to Bennington, where he worked as a lawyer again. We chose him in the House of Representatives of Vermont, where he worked in 1802. He died in 1813 in Bennington, and was then buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery.

He was also the elder brother of Jonathan Robinson, later U.S. Senator from Vermont.

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