George D. Robinson

George Dexter Robinson was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. After serving in the United States Congress, he served three terms as Governor of Massachusetts, notably defeating the colorful and controversial Benjamin Franklin Butler in the 1884 election. His most famous legal client was Lizzie Borden, whose acquittal from charges she murdered her father and stepmother he secured.

George Washington Robinson was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. He attended Lexington Academy and Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, and graduated from Harvard University in 1856. While at Harvard he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. In 1855 he had his name legally changed to George Dexter Robinson, supposedly because someone else in Lexington had a similar name to his.

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