biography
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Robinson, Joseph Taylor
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| lived:
| (1872–1937)
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| biography:
| US senator, born near Lonoke, Arkansas, USA. After serving in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Arkansas, 1903–12), he was elected governor, but resigned after serving a few weeks to fill an expired term in the US Senate (1913–37). He was Senate minority leader (1923–33) and majority leader thereafter, and was Al Smith's vice-presidential running mate in 1928. In the Senate he supported the progressive policies of both President Woodrow Wilson and President Franklin D Roosevelt. |
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