David Fullerton Robison

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

[edit] 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, Pennsylvania.

[edit] United States House of Representatives

Robison elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination and continued the practice of law in Chambersburg. He died there in 1859, from a disease contracted at a banquet at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the inauguration of President James Buchanan. The illness is was known as National Hotel disease. Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Greencastle, Pennsylvania.

[edit] Sources

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

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