David Fullerton Robison (May 28, 1816 – June 24, 1859) was an Opposition Party member of the

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from Pennsylvania.

Early life

David F. Robison (nephew of David Fullerton) was born in Antrim Township, Pennsylvania, near Greencastle, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, taught school, studied law, was admitted to the Franklin County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1843 and commenced practice in

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United States House of Representatives

Robison was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination and continued to practice law in Chambersburg, where he died in 1859, from a disease contracted at a banquet at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the inauguration of President

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. The illness was known as

National Hotel disease The National Hotel epidemic was a mysterious sickness that began to afflict persons who stayed at the National Hotel in Washington, DC, in early January 1857."The Washington Epidemic", '' New York Daily Times'', March 23, 1857, pg. 2. At the time ...

. He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Greencastle.

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