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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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ROBINSON, Thomas John Bright, a Representative from Iowa;
born in New Diggings, Lafayette County, Wis., August 12, 1868;
moved with his parents to Hampton, Iowa, in 1870;
attended the public schools and the Hampton High School;
engaged in agricultural pursuits;
president of the Citizens National Bank of Hampton 1907-1923;
member of the Hampton Board of Education and board of trustees of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa;
member of the State senate 1912-1916;
delegate to many Republican State conventions;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1933);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress;
engaged in the real estate and investment business;
died in Hampton, Iowa, January 27, 1958;
interment in Hampton Cemetery.
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