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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaMilton Stapp ROBINSON
(1832-1892)
ROBINSON, Milton Stapp, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Versailles, Ripley County,
Ind., April 20, 1832; received a limited schooling; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1851 and began practice in Anderson,
Ind.; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1856;
appointed a director of the Indiana State Penitentiary at Michigan
City in 1861, but resigned after a few months; entered the Union
Army in September 1861 as lieutenant colonel of the Forty-seventh
Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served until March 29,
1864; brevetted brigadier general March 13, 1865; served in the
State senate 1866-1870; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law;
appointed associate justice of the appellate court of Indiana in
March 1891; subsequently appointed chief justice and served until
his death in Anderson, Ind., July 28, 1892; interment in Maplewood
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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