Riley Edward Robinson Explained

Party:Republican
Birth Date:4 November 1847
Birth Place:Tennessee, U.S.
State House:Florida
District:Nassau County
Term:1883–1885
1885–1887
Death Date:February 1921 (aged 73)

Riley Edward Robinson (November 4, 1847 – February 1921) was a carpenter, minister in the Episcopal Church, councilman, custom house inspector, and state legislator in Florida. He served on the city council in Fernandina, Florida from 1875 to 1879 and from 1883 to 1890, as well as from 1892 to 1894. He represented Nassau County in the Florida House of Representatives in 1883 and 1885.[1]

He was born in Tennessee in 1847.[2] He was described as having been enslaved and categorized as "mulatto". He moved to Alachua County, Florida in 1858 and lived there until after the American Civil War when he moved to Duval County, Florida and apprenticed as a carpenter. He moved to Nassau County in 1870.

He belonged to the mason fraternal order.[2] [3] He was a leader in Nassau County's Republican Party.[4] He was listed as a state legislator as R. E. Robinson.[5] [6] He served as postmaster of the Kings Ferry post office in Nassau County.[7]

The Christian Advocate noted his assigned area.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=_1iRfGqI2LAC&dq=%22riley+edward+robinson%22&pg=PA148 Florida's Public Officials
  2. Web site: Leading Black Masons Laying the Foundation for the Social Construct in Florida. Genaro. Urso. April 24, 2018.
  3. Web site: The Great Fire of 1901. May 28, 2017.
  4. Web site: Florida Times-Union Index. jaxpubliclibrary.contentdm.oclc.org.
  5. Web site: General Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature of Florida. December 23, 1883. Office of the Floridian and Journal. Google Books.
  6. Web site: The Florida Annual, Impartial and Unsectional, 1886. C. K.. Munroe. December 23, 1886. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Official Register of the United States. United States Department of the. Interior. December 23, 1899. U.S. Government Printing Office. Google Books.
  8. Web site: Christian Advocate. December 23, 1898. Google Books.