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Robinson, George Dexter

lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 20, 1834, in Lexington, Mass. He was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature in 1874; and a state senator in 1876. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican. In 1883 he was elected governor of Massachusetts, and resigned his seat in congress to assume the duties of that office from January, 1884; and was re-elected in 1884 and 1885.

ROBINSON, MRS. HARRIET JANE [HANSON], suffragist, author, poet, was born Feb. 8, 1825, in Boston, Mass. She is a prominent woman suffragist of Malden, Mass. In her early life she was one of the contributors to the noted Lowell Offering; and the author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement; Captain Mary Miller, drama; Early Factory Labor in New England; and The New Pandora, a drama in blank verse. a