Representative Samuel Ernest Robinson View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 7/15/1985
Birth Place: Preemption, IL
Birth Country: USA
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 57 (1957) - 60 (1963)
Home County: Guthrie
Samuel Ernest Robinson
Guthrie County
Guthrie Center Guthrie County Republican Born Mercer County, Illinois, October 7, 1894. Parents, James I. and Martha L. Robinson. Moved to Guthrie County, 1902. Education, rural schools, graduate of Guthrie County high school; Extension work, Iowa State College. World War I Veteran (88th Division). Married December 11, 1920, to Bessie L. Miller. Parents of seven children, Donald J., Robert E., Marjorie J. Slaybaugh, Paul V., Mary E. Joyce, Betty J. Parks, and Patricia A. Brubaker. Ten grandchildren. Sons in World War II and Korean conflict. Farming 1921-1946; specialty, Purebred Durocs. Active in many community and civic organizations. Employee, Farm Bureau and associated companies for five years, also an instructor G.I. on-the-farm training class. Member Methodist church, 32nd degree Mason, American Legion, I.O.O.F, O.E.S., Rebekahs, Lions, Izaak Walton, Farm Bureau and Chamber of Commerce. Present interests, Insurance, Justice of the Peace, and Purebred Durocs. Serving second term.