Robinson, James M
machinist, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1861 in Allen county, Ind. At the age of fifteen he took employment in shop at Fort Wayne as a machine hand, and from that time till the present has supported and kept house with his mother; and while working at his trade he studied law. In 1881 he entered the office of Judge Walpole G. Colerick, who was then in congress; and in 1882 was admitted to practice in the state and United States courts. In 1886 and 1888 he was unanimously nominated for prosecuting attorney and elected, filling that position for four years.
He was unanimously nominated by the democrats in 1896 and elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a democrat, representing the twelfth congressional district of Indiana.