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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyGeorge Maxwell ROBESON
(1829-1897)
ROBESON, George Maxwell,
(nephew of George Clifford Maxwell), a Representative from New
Jersey; born at Oxford Furnace, near Belvidere, Warren County,
N.J., March 16, 1829; pursued an academic course and was graduated
from Princeton College in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1850 and practiced in Newark and subsequently in Camden;
appointed prosecuting attorney for Camden County in 1858; was
active in organizing the State troops for service in the Civil War
and was commissioned brigadier general by Governor Parker; elected
attorney general of New Jersey in 1867 and served until his
resignation June 22, 1869; appointed Secretary of the Navy in the
Cabinet of President Grant and served from June 25, 1869, to March
12, 1877; resumed the practice of law in Camden, N.J.; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March
4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of the Navy (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Trenton, N.J., where he died
September 27, 1897; interment in Belvidere Cemetery, Belvidere,
N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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