Marmaduke Swaim Robins

Marmaduke Swaim Robins (August 31, 1827 - June 27, 1905) was a teacher, lawyer, politician and newspaperman in North Carolina. He served as private secretary to North Carolina governor Zebulon Vance and as a state legislator.

Biography

Robins was born August 31, 1827. He next was elected to the North Carolina Senate for the 1866-1867 session representing Alamance County, North Carolina, and Randolph County. He returned to the senate 9 years later represented Moore County, North Carolina, and Randolph County during the 1876-1877 session. Returning to the house in 1883 representing Moore and Randolph counties until 1884. Finally he returned to the senate in 1885 again representing Moore and Randolph counties until 1888.

He was the editor of the Raleigh Conservative newspaper. He founded and edited the Randolph Regulator (which became The Courier-Tribune) in Asheboro in 1876. His law office remains extant and was used by his son Henry Moring Robins who was also a lawyer and served as Asheboro's mayor from 1907 to 1909.

Robins married Annie Moring on July 24, 1878, and together they had three sons.