Thomas J. B. Robinson

Thomas John Bright Robinson ( born August 12, 1868 in New Diggings, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, † January 27, 1958 in Hampton, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1870 came Thomas Robinson as a child with his parents to Hampton, Iowa. There he attended the public schools, including the Hampton High School. He was then engaged in farming and banking. Between 1907 and 1923 he was president of the Citizens National Bank of Hampton. Robinson was also a member of the Education Committee of Hampton and curator of the Cornell College.

Robinson was a member of the Republican Party, for which he sat 1912-1916 in the Senate of Iowa. During this period he also visited many of the local Republican party conventions in Iowa. In the congressional elections of 1922 he was in the third electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Burton E. Sweet on March 4, 1923. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 five contiguous legislatures. His last tenure was overshadowed by the global economic crisis. In the last weeks of his time in the House of Representatives where the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted. It was about the reorganization of the beginning of the terms of office of the President and the Congress.

In the 1932 elections, Robinson defeated Democrat Albert C. Willford. This election result was then in the national trend in favor of the Democrats, who also won the presidential election this year, with Franklin D. Roosevelt. After his retirement from the House of Representatives Robinson retired from politics. He was involved in the following years in the real estate and investment industry. Thomas Robinson died on January 27, 1958 in his home in Hampton at the age of 89 years.