| LC control no. | nr2001005633 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Robinson, John Cleveland, 1817-1897 |
| Birth date | 1817-04-10 |
| Death date | 1897-02-18 |
| Place of birth | Binghamton (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Binghamton (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Army New York (State). Office of the Lieutenant Governor Grand Army of the Republic Society of the Army of the Potomac |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers Generals--United States Lieutenant governors--New York (State) |
| Found in | Republican Party (Oneida County, N.Y.). Oneida County. Campaign of 1872. Grant and Wilson. For governor, John A. Dix. For lieutenant-governor, John C. Robinson, 1872. MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Robinson, John Cleveland, 1817-1897; usage: John Cleveland Robinson; Major-General John Cleveland Robinson, U.S.A.; Maj.-Gen. John C. Robinson; note: soldier in Mexican War and maj.-gen. in Civil War; elected lt. gov. of N.Y. 1872; comm. in chief of Grand Army of the Republic 1877-8; pres. of Society of the Army of the Potomac, 1887) Wikipedia, February 28, 2019 (John C. Robinson; John Cleveland Robinson (April 10, 1817--February 18, 1897) had a long and distinguished career in the United States Army (1839-1869), fighting in numerous wars and culminating his career as a Union Army brigadier general of volunteers and brevet major general of volunteers in the American Civil War; he was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in action in 1864 near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, where he lost a leg; when he retired from the U.S. Army on May 6, 1869, he was placed on the retired list as a full rank major general, USA; after his army service, he was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1873 to 1874 and served two terms as the president of the Grand Army of the Republic; he was born and died in Binghamton, New York) |
| Associated language | eng |
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