William Erigena Robinson

William Erigena Robinson ( born May 6, 1814 Unagh, Ireland, † January 23, 1892 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1867-1869 and 1881-1885 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Erigena Robinson was born at the end of the Napoleonic era in Unagh in Cookstown. He attended school in Cooktown and 1834, the Belfast College. Robinson immigrated to the United States and settled in November 1836 in New York City down. Five years later, he graduated from Yale College and then attended two years of the Yale Law School. He has lectured before literary associations. In 1843 he worked as an editorial assistant for the New York Tribune and whose only Washington correspondent, who wrote under the name of "Richelieu ". However, he worked in Washington for other newspapers. His admission to the bar he received in 1854 and commenced practice in New York City after that. President Lincoln appointed him in 1862 to the assessor for tax revenue in the third district of New York.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1866, Robinson was the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel O'Reilly on March 4, 1867. He retired after the March 3, 1869 out of the Congress. He then worked as a lawyer again. In 1880 he was elected in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of John W. Hunter on March 4, 1881. After a successful re-election in 1884, he retired after March 3, 1885 from the Congress.

Robinson died on January 23, 1892 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.