Robinson, Joseph T

Robinson, Joseph T

▪ American lawyer and politician
born Aug. 26, 1872, near Lonoke, Ark., U.S.
died July 14, 1937, Washington, D.C.

      American lawyer and legislator, a major figure in the enactment of New Deal legislation. He represented Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives (1903–13) and the U.S. Senate (1913–37).

      Admitted to the bar in 1895, Robinson practiced law in Lonoke. In 1902 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served for 10 years. Elected governor of Arkansas in 1912, he resigned a few months later to assume the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Jeff Davis, himself a former Arkansas governor. Robinson was successively reelected until his death, eventually becoming Senate majority leader under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1928 Robinson ran as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate on the losing ticket with Al Smith. As minority leader in the Senate, Robinson in 1929 pledged to cooperate with Hoover's economic program; he soon found himself at odds with the new president, however, and tried to convince him to step up relief efforts and public-works projects.

      With the Democratic takeover of Congress in 1933, Robinson became majority leader and thus was responsible for steering through the upper chamber much of Roosevelt's (Roosevelt, Franklin D.) New Deal program. In his final effort, Robinson worked tirelessly on behalf of the president's ill-fated court-packing plan, having received assurances from Roosevelt that he would be appointed to one of the new Supreme Court seats to be created by the bill. Roosevelt's court-packing plan was unpopular in the Senate—even among leading Democrats—and during the legislative battle, Robinson suffered a fatal stroke. He was considered an able and effective legislator, active in the drafting and passage of numerous bills, although only one, the Robinson–Patman Act of 1936, a fair-trade bill, bears his name.

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