Jonathan Robinson (Canadian Politician)
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Jonathan Robinson (November 18, 1894 – October 11, 1948) was a
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lawyer and 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
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and was admitted to the
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in 1938. He served as secretary of the Bar of Montreal in 1932 and 1933. Robinson was a member of the
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for the Union Nationale for Brome from 1936 until he died in 1948. He was Minister of Mines from 1944 until his death and was the representative of
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s in the provincial cabinet.


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1894 births 1948 deaths Politicians from Montérégie Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs Canadian military personnel of World War I 20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec {{Union-Nationale-Quebec-MNA-stub