Howard Winfield Robison was a Republican

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 member of the United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

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Robison was born in Owego, New York

Owego (village), New York

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. He graduated from Cornell University

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 in 1937 and received a law degree from Cornell Law School

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 in 1939. He served in the Counter Intelligence Corps of the United States Army

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 from 1942 until 1946. He served as county attorney of Tioga County, New York

Tioga County, New York

As of the census of 2010, there were 51,125 people residing in the county, with 22,203 housing units, of these 20,350 occupied, 1,853 vacant. The population density was 98 people per square mile...

 from 1946 until 1958. He was elected to Congress in 1958 in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. Sterling Cole

W. Sterling Cole

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 and served from January 14, 1958 until January 3, 1975.

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