George D. Robinson

George D. Robinson

Infobox Governor
name = George Dexter Robinson


imagesize = 150px
order = 34th
office = Governor of Massachusetts
term_start = January 3, 1884
term_end = January 6, 1887
lieutenant = Oliver Ames
predecessor = Benjamin F. Butler
successor = Oliver Ames
birth_date = birth date|1834|1|20|mf=y
birth_place = Lexington, Massachusetts
death_date = death date and age|1896|2|22|1834|1|20|mf=y
death_place = Chicopee, Massachusetts
party = Republican
spouse =
profession =
alma_mater = Harvard College
religion =
order2 = Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 11th & 12th districts
term_start2 = 1877
term_end2 = 1883 (11th)
1883 – 1884 (12th)
predecessor2 = Chester W. Chapin (1877)
successor2 = William Whiting (1883)
Francis W. Rockwell (1884)

George Dexter Robinson (born George Washington Robinson) (January 20, 1834–February 22, 1896) was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. He attended Lexington Academy and Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1856. While at Harvard he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. [Baird, William Raymond (1915). "Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities," pp.349-355] He was the principal of Chicopee High School from 1856 to 1865. Robinson studied law for nine years with his brother, and earned a masters degree from Harvard. He was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in 1866 and commenced practice in Chicopee. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1874 and served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1876, both times representing Chicopee. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to January 7, 1884, when he resigned, having been elected Governor of Massachusetts. He held this position from 1884 to 1887.

As governor, Robinson's accomplishments included fiscal restraint. Nevertheless, he also proposed successful legislation to extend free public education to every student by requiring that textbooks be provided to each student free of charge. He also created a requirement that corporations pay workers weekly and established the Commonwealth's first State Board of Arbitration to resolve disputes between workers and employers.

Upon leaving office, Robinson resumed the practice of law in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was in this period that he achieved, in 1892, the distinction of serving as Lizzie Borden's defense counsel; for a retainer of $25,000 he was able to secure her acquittal. He remained a prominent lawyer until his death in Chicopee; he is buried in Fairview Cemetery.

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External links

* [http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/grobinson.htm Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Biography]
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