John M. Robinson

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This article is on the American senator John McCracken Robinson. For the British historian, see John Martin Robinson.

John McCracken Robinson (April 10, 1794 - April 25, 1843) was a United States Senator from Illinois. Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, he attended the common schools and graduated from Transylvania University at Lexington. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar and began practice in Carmi, Illinois in 1818. He was a judge of the State supreme court, and served as a general in the State militia. He was elected in 1830 as a Jacksonian (later a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John 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 State Supreme Court in 1843 and served until his death two months later in Ottawa, Illinois. His interment was in the Old Graveyard, Carmi, Illinois.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Preceded by David J. Baker

United States Senator (Class 2) from Illinois 1830–1841 Served alongside: Elias Kane , William L.D. Ewing, Richard M. Young

Succeeded by Samuel McRoberts