Robbins, Gaston A
lawyer, gressman, was born Sept. 26, 1859, in Alabama. He entered the university of North Carolina in 1877, and graduated in 1879, studied law with Dick and Dillard, at Greensboro, N. C. He was admitted to practice law in the supreme court of North Carolina in 1880. Returning then to Selma, Ala., he employed himself in the practice of the law; and was presidential elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat. His father, a noted lawyer, was killed in the confederate service in 1864.