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Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Arkansas' outstanding statesman, was born six miles northwest of this place in 1872. He lived in Lonoke and practiced law, was elected to Congress and served ten years, moved to Little Rock in 1912, and served as Governor in 1913 until he resigned to qualify as United States Senator in the same year. He served as Chairman of the Minority Conference from 1922 until 1933, when he became Chairman of the Democratic Majority in the Senate, a position he still holds in this centennial year of 1936.
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Lonoke, Arkansas · United States
