{{Short description|American politician}} {{redirect|David Robison|other people with a similar name|David Robinson (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = David Robison |state = Pennsylvania |district = {{ushr|PA|17|17th}} |term_start = March 4, 1855 |term_end = March 3, 1857 |predecessor = Samuel L. Russell |successor = Wilson Reilly |birth_name = David Fullerton Robison |birth_date = {{birth date|1816|5|28}} |birth_place = Antrim Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1859|6|24|1816|5|28}} |death_place = Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. |party = Opposition |relatives = David Fullerton (uncle) }} '''David Fullerton Robison''' (May 28, 1816 – June 24, 1859) was an Opposition Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives 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 Chambersburg.

==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 James Buchanan.{{citation needed|date=March 2010}} The illness was known as National Hotel disease. He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Greencastle.

==Sources== {{Bioguide}} {{CongBio|R000356}} * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robison-rockne.html#874.99.49 David Fullerton Robison entry] at The Political Graveyard {{Portal|Biography}}

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