John M. Robsion Explained

John M. Robsion
Jr/Sr:United States Senator
State:Kentucky
Term Start:January 11, 1930
Term End:November 30, 1930
Appointer:Flem D. Sampson
Predecessor:Frederic M. Sackett
Successor:Ben M. Williamson
Office1:Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky
Term Start1:January 3, 1935
Term End1:February 17, 1948
Preceded1:Fred M. Vinson
Succeeded1:William Lewis
Term Start2:March 4, 1919
Term End2:January 10, 1930
Preceded2:Caleb Powers
Succeeded2:Charles Finley
Birth Name:John Marshall Robsion
Birth Date:2 January 1873
Birth Place:Berlin, Kentucky
Death Place:Barbourville, Kentucky
Resting Place:Barbourville Cemetery
Party:Republican
Children:John M. Robsion Jr.

John Marshall Robsion (January 2, 1873February 17, 1948), a Republican, represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

Robsion was born in Berlin, Kentucky. He attended National Northern University, now Ohio Northern University, in Ada, Ohio, and Holbrook College in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from the National Normal University in Lebanon, Ohio. He then earned a law degree from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1900.

Robsion taught in public schools for several years and at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. He also practiced law in Barbourville and was the president of the First National Bank of Barbourville.

Robsion was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until January 10, 1930, when he resigned to serve in the United States Senate. He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses).

He was appointed on January 9, 1930, as a Republican to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick M. Sackett and he served in the Senate from January 11, 1930, to November 30, 1930. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the same seat in 1930. After leaving the Senate, Robsion resumed the practice of law and was elected to the United States House of Representatives Seventy-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Barbourville, Ky., February 17, 1948. He is buried in Barbourville Cemetery.

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