David Fullerton Robison (May 28, 1816 – June 24, 1859) was anOpposition Party member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.

David F. Robison (nephew ofDavid Fullerton) was born inAntrim Township, Pennsylvania, nearGreencastle, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, taught school, studied law, was admitted to theFranklin County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1843 and commenced practice inChambersburg.

Robison was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to theThirty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination and continued to practice law in Chambersburg, where he died in 1859, from a disease contracted at a banquet at theNational Hotel inWashington, D.C., during the inauguration of PresidentJames Buchanan.^{[citation needed]} The illness was known asNational Hotel disease. He was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery inGreencastle.

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