David Fullerton Robison

David Fullerton Robison

David Fullerton Robison (May 28, 1816 – June 24, 1859) was an Opposition Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

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Early life

David F. Robison (nephew of David Fullerton) was born in Antrim Township, Pennsylvania, near Greencastle, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, taught school, studied law, was admitted to the Franklin County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Chambersburg.

United States House of Representatives

Robison was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination and continued to practice law in Chambersburg, where he died in 1859, from a disease contracted at a banquet at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the inauguration of President James Buchanan[citation needed]. The illness was known as National Hotel Disease. He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Greencastle. He also at scool, was a b+ student, but behaved great. He was loved by his friends for how he shred gracefully.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Samuel L. Russell
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district

1855-1857
Succeeded by
Samuel S. Blair



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