Lloyd M. Robinette
American politician
Lloyd Mileham Robinette (March 26, 1881 – November 2, 1951) was a Virginia lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Robinette agreed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and was one of the leading opponents within Virginia of the powerful Byrd Organization, who U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd called "anti's". Robinette represented his native Lee County, Virginia and adjacent Scott County for nearly two decades in the Virginia Senate, until his suicide days before the 1951 election.
Early and family life
Lloyd Robinette was born in Blackwater, Virginia to Narcissa Lindsey Robinette (1850-1892), and her husband, former Confederate veteran Samuel R. Robinette (1839-1926). His father had served in Company B of the 25th Virginia Cavalry before being captured in 1864 and imprisoned in Indiana until the end of the American Civil War. Although his mother was born in Illinois, her family descended from Irish emigrants to Bedford County, Virginia centuries before; his parents met and married in Tennessee in 1870. His father's ancestors had been Huguenots who fled France to Bavaria, then England before emigrating to Pennsylvania and eventually southwestern Virginia. Lloyd Robinette was eligible for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution on both sides of his family, but instead chose to participate in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, eventually leading the William E. Jones Camp. His seven siblings included older brother Charles J. Robinette (1875-1925), younger brothers Lewis Emerson Robinette (1883-1946) and Amos Oscar Robinette (1891-1971), as well as sisters Mary Robinette (b. 1872), Sarah Caldona Robinette Livingston (1877-1918), Ida May Robinette (1885-1909) and Lilie B. Robinette (b.
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