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Line 54: − A [[progressive]], Robinson was a staunch supporter of [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]]. He was the chairman of the 1920 Democratic National Convention, which nominated the losing James M. Cox-[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ticket, defeated by [[Warren Harding]] and [[Calvin Coolidge]].<ref name=senate>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_Robinson.htm |title=U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Senate Leaders |publisher=United States Senate|accessdate=February 24, 2021}}</ref> In 1923, Robinson's colleagues named him the Senate Minority Leader. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination as a [[favorite son]] candidate in 1924 but lost out to John William Davis (1873-1955), a conservative corporation attorney from [[West Virginia]], who subsequently voted against Franklin Roosevelt.+ − +
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https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000347|title=Joseph T. Robinson|publisher=Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress|accessdate=February 24, 2021}}</ref>
A [[progressive]], Robinson was a staunch supporter of [[U.S. President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]]. He was the chairman of the 1920 Democratic National Convention, which nominated the losing James M. Cox-[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ticket, defeated by [[Warren Harding]] and [[Calvin Coolidge]].<ref name=senate>{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_Robinson.htm |title=U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Senate Leaders |publisher=United States Senate|accessdate=February 24, 2021}}</ref> In 1923, Robinson's colleagues named him the Senate Minority Leader. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination as a [[favorite son]] candidate in 1924 but lost out to John William Davis (1873-1955), a conservative corporation attorney from [[West Virginia]], who subsequently voted against Franklin Roosevelt.
When the Democrats took control of the Senate in 1933 with the election of Franklin Roosevelt as President Robinson was named Senate Majority Leader, in which capacity he helped to pass much of the [[New Deal]] agenda. He was the last U.S. Senator elected by a state legislature rather than by direct popular vote, mandated by the [[Seventeenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]], which took effect on April 8, 1913.
When the Democrats took control of the Senate in 1933 with the election of Franklin Roosevelt as President Robinson was named Senate Majority Leader, in which capacity he helped to pass much of the [[New Deal]] agenda. He was the last U.S. Senator elected by a state legislature rather than by direct popular vote, mandated by the [[Seventeenth Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]], which took effect on April 8, 1913.
==In the Senate==
==In the Senate==