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Governor
  
Caleb Strong

Preceded by
  
David Cobb


Succeeded by
  
Levi Lincoln, Sr.

Preceded by
  
Samuel Phillips, Jr.

Name
  
Edward Robbins

Edward Robbins Edward Robbins OCULS

Died
  
December 17, 1837 (aged 79)

Succeeded by
  
John Coffin Jones, Sr.

Edward Hutchinson Robbins (February 9, 1758 – December 17, 1837) served as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1802 to 1806. In 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the great-great-grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the side of Roosevelt's mother, Sarah Delano:

  • Edward Robbins married Elizabeth Murray, daughter of James Murray (loyalist)
  • …whose daughter, Anne Jean Robbins, married Joseph Lyman
  • …whose daughter, Catherine Robbins Lyman, married Warren Delano Jr.
  • …whose daughter, Sara Delano, married James Roosevelt
  • …whose son was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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