Sam Dunn Robinson (March 21, 1899 – June 7, 1997)Arkansas Courts
A Self-Guided Tour of Justice Building Portraits
(2016), p. 17. was a justice on the

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from 1951 to 1965. Robinson was born in

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. He joined the

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at the age 18 to serve in

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. After the war, he returned to Arkansas and did agricultural work including herding cattle. In 1923, Robinson began studying at the

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. He graduated at the top of his class even though he had not received formal education beyond the third grade. He worked as a lawyer for the next 16 years. Robinson was elected as a Prosecuting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit in 1940. He was elected an Associate Justice in 1950. He served as an Associate Justice until he retired in 1966. Robinson died in

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, at the age of 98."In Memoriam: Judge Sam Robinson",
The Arkansas Lawyer
', Vol. 32, No. 3. (Summer 1997), p. 47.

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