George D. Robinson

Who was George D. Robinson?

George Dexter Robinson was an American politician.

He was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. He attended Lexington Academy and Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1856. While at Harvard he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. He was the principal of Chicopee High School in Chicopee, Massachusetts from 1856 to 1865. Robinson studied law for nine years with his brother, and earned a masters degree from Harvard. He was admitted to the bar in Cambridge in 1866 and commenced practice in Chicopee. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1874 and served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1876, both times representing Chicopee. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to January 7, 1884, when he resigned, having been elected the 34th Governor of Massachusetts. He held this position from 1884 to 1887.

As governor, Robinson's accomplishments included fiscal restraint.