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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasJoseph Taylor ROBINSON
(1872-1937)
Senate Years of Service:
1913-1937Party: DemocratROBINSON, Joseph Taylor, a
Representative and a Senator from Arkansas; born on a farm near
Lonoke, Lonoke County, Ark., August 26, 1872; attended the common
schools, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and the law
department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville;
admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Lonoke, Ark.;
member, State general assembly 1895; presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1900; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1903, to January 14, 1913, when he resigned, having been
elected Governor; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-second
Congress); Governor of Arkansas from January 16 to March 8, 1913,
when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected to the
United States Senate in 1913 to fill the seat vacated by the death
of Senator Jeff Davis; reelected in 1918, 1924, 1930 and 1936 and
served from March 10, 1913, until his death; minority leader
1923-1933; majority leader 1933-1937; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Sixty-third and
Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Sixty-fifth
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United
States on the Democratic ticket in 1928; died in Washington, D.C.,
July 14, 1937; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the
United States Senate; interment in Roselawn Memorial Park in Little
Rock, Ark.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Weller, Cecil E. Jr. Joe T. Robinson: Always a
Loyal Democrat. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas
Press, 1998; Bacon, Donald C. “Joseph Taylor Robinson: The
Good Soldier.” In First Among Equals: Outstanding Senate
Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard A. Baker
and Roger H. Davidson, pp. 63-97. Washington: Congressional
Quarterly, 1991.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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