- John McCracken Robinson
John McCracken Robinson (
April 10 ,1794 –April 25 ,1843 ) was aUnited States Senator fromIllinois .Born near
Georgetown, Kentucky , he attended the common schools and graduated fromTransylvania University at Lexington. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar and began practice inCarmi, Illinois in 1818. He was a judge of theIllinois Supreme Court , and served as a general in the Statemilitia . He was elected in 1830 as aJacksonian (later a Democrat to theU.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofJohn McLean . He was reelected in 1835 and served from December 11, 1830, to March 3, 1841, and was not a candidate for reelection. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-second Congress) and a member of the Committees on Militia (Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth Congresses) and Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses).Robinson was elected an
associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court in 1843 and served until his death two months later inOttawa, Illinois . His interment was in the Old Graveyard, Carmi, Illinois.References
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