Robeson, George Maxwell

Life Span
to
Full name
George Maxwell Robeson
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
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Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Education
Princeton (College of New Jersey)
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Political Parties
Republican
Government
Grant Administration (1869-77)
US House of Representatives
Other state government
Local government
Military
Union Army

George Maxwell Robeson (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
ROBESON, George Maxwell,  (nephew of George Clifford Maxwell), a Representative from New Jersey; born at Oxford Furnace, near Belvidere, Warren County, N.J., March 16, 1829; pursued an academic course and was graduated from Princeton College in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced in Newark and subsequently in Camden; appointed prosecuting attorney for Camden County in 1858; was active in organizing the State troops for service in the Civil War and was commissioned brigadier general by Governor Parker; elected attorney general of New Jersey in 1867 and served until his resignation June 22, 1869; appointed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President Grant and served from June 25, 1869, to March 12, 1877; resumed the practice of law in Camden, N.J.; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Trenton, N.J., where he died September 27, 1897; interment in Belvidere Cemetery, Belvidere, N.J.
“Robeson, George Maxwell,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000330.
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