Frederick Robinson (Massachusetts)

Frederick Robinson
Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts
In office
1852–1854
Preceded by Joseph E. Sprague
Succeeded by Thomas E. Payson
President of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
1843–1843
Preceded by Phineas W. Leland
Succeeded by Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Member of
the Massachusetts Senate
In office
1843–1843
Preceded by Phineas W. Leland
Succeeded by Levi Lincoln, Jr.
Personal details
Born August 7, 1799
Exeter, New Hampshire
Died January 22, 1882
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Political party Democratic
Occupation Sheriff
Politician

Frederick Robinson (August 7, 1799 January 22, 1882) served as sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts, and as the President of the Massachusetts Senate.[1]

Political career

Robinson served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,[2]and he was a member and the President of the Massachusetts Senate.[1] In 1847 Robinson was an unsuccessful Democratic party candidate for the US House of Representatives.[2]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Graves & Steinbarger (1901), American Series of Popular Biographies, Massachusetts Edition Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts: Graves & Steinbarger, p. 455
  2. 2.0 2.1 Whittier, John Greenleaf (1975), The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume I 1828-1845, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, p. 194
Political offices
Preceded by
Phineas W. Leland
President of the Massachusetts Senate
1843
Succeeded by
Josiah Quincy, Jr.
Preceded by
Joseph E. Sprague
Sheriff of
Essex County, Massachusetts

1852–1854
Succeeded by
Thomas E. Payson