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Jonathan Robinson (Canadian politician)

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Political party
  
Union Nationale


Name
  
Jonathan Robinson

Jonathan Robinson (Canadian politician)

Preceded by
  
Ralph Frederick Stockwell

Succeeded by
  
Charles James Warwick Fox

Born
  
November 18, 1894 Waterloo, Quebec (
1894-11-18
)

Died
  
October 11, 1948(1948-10-11) (aged 53) Montreal, Quebec

Relations
  
Asa Belknap Foster, grandfather

Jonathan Robinson (November 18, 1894 – October 11, 1948) was a lawyer and Canadian provincial politician.

He was born in Waterloo, Quebec and was the grandson of Asa Belknap Foster. In 1928, he married Florence Walker McMaster, daughter of Andrew Ross McMaster. He studied law at McGill University and was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1938. He served as secretary of the Bar of Montreal in 1932 and 1933.

Robinson was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the Union Nationale for Brome from 1936 until his death in 1948. He was Minister of Mines from 1944 until his death and was the representative of English-speaking Quebecers in the provincial cabinet.

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