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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaArthur Raymond ROBINSON
(1881-1961)
Senate Years of Service:
1925-1935Party: RepublicanROBINSON, Arthur Raymond,
a Senator from Indiana; born in Pickerington, Fairfield County,
Ohio, on March 12, 1881; attended the common schools; graduated
from the Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1901, the Indiana Law
School at Indianapolis in 1910, and the University of Chicago,
Chicago, Ill., in 1913; admitted to the bar in 1910 and commenced
practice in Indianapolis, Ind.; member, State senate 1914-1918, and
was the Republican floor leader during the entire period; during
the First World War served in the army as a first lieutenant,
captain, and major; served in France in the Army of Occupation;
resumed the practice of law; judge of Marion County Superior Court
1921-1922; resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis, Ind., in
1922; appointed on October 20, 1925, as a Republican to the United
States Senate and subsequently elected on November 2, 1926, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel M. Ralston; reelected in
1928, and served from October 20, 1925, to January 3, 1935; was an
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934; chairman, Committee
on Pensions (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses);
practiced law in Indianapolis, Ind., until his death there March
17, 1961; interment in Washington Park Cemetery East.
Bibliography
Bowers, Robert E. “Senator Arthur Robinson of Indiana
Vindicated: William Bullitt’s Secret Mission to
Europe.” Indiana Magazine of History 61 (September
1965): 189-204; Robinson, Arthur Raymond. Memory and the
Executive Mind. Chicago: M.A. Donahue & Co., 1912.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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