John Robinson Jr.
BIRTH
Feb 3, 1705
Middlesex County, Virginia
DEATH
May 11, 1766
Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER:
John Robinson Sr.
(1683-1749)
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Robinson, Jr.
(1705-1766)
John Robinson Jr. was a Virginia planter and political leader who served for decades as speaker of the House of Burgesses and colonial treasurer. His influence shaped the assembly in the years before the Revolution, although a posthumous treasury scandal damaged his reputation.
John Robinson Jr. was born on Feb 3, 1705 in Middlesex County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Robinson Jr. with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Robinson Jr. died on May 11, 1766 in Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.