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Robinson (JOSEPH TAYLOR an American)

JOSEPH TAYLOR, an American lawyer and legislator. He was born at Lonoke, Ark., in 1872, and was educated in the public schools and the University of Arkansas. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1895, beginning to practice at Lonoke. In 1895 he became a member of the General As- JOSEPH TAYLOR ROBINSON sembly and in 1896 was nominated presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, but retired at the request of the Democratic National Committee in the interest of fusion to make room for Populists.

He was presidential elector in 1900 and electoral messenger in 1901. He represented the sixth Arkansas district in Congress 1903-13, resigning in the last year, to be inaugurated as Governor of Arkan- ROBINSON sas, to which he had been elected in 1912.

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1913 to succeed the Hon. Jeff Davis and was re-elected in 1918.