Willis E. Robinson

Who is Willis E. Robinson?

Willis E. Robinson was a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature.

Robinson was born in Crete, Will County, Illinois and raised in Fillmore, Utah from a very young age. He married Sarah A. Ellett. From 1882 to 1884 he served as a missionary for the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Southern States Mission. In 1888 he moved to Piute, Utah and the following year to Loa, Utah when he was called to serve as bishop of the LDS Church ward in that place.

In the 1890s, Robinson was elected to the Utah Territorial Legislature from the district that covered what was then Piute and Beaver counties. When Piute County was split, Robinson was put in charge of organizing the new county, which he named Wayne County after one of his sons. In 1893, when the Wayne Stake of the LDS Church was organized, Robinson was made the first president of that stake.

Robinson was a member of the 1895 Utah Constitutional Convention.