1. Arthur Brouhard Robinson was born on March 24,1942 and is an American biochemist, conservative activist, prominent climate change denier, and politician who served as the Oregon State Senator from the 2nd District from 2021 to 2025.
32 Facts About Art Robinson
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Art Robinson was the five-time Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's 4th congressional district.
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Art Robinson served as chairman of the Oregon Republican Party from August 2013 to February 2015.
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Art Robinson received a BS in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1963, and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1968.
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Art Robinson was one of the few students ever to be appointed to the faculty of the University of California, San Diego immediately after getting his Ph.
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Art Robinson was a co-founder, along with Linus Pauling and Keene Dimick, of the Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine, later renamed the Linus Pauling Institute in 1973.
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Art Robinson was the president, director, and a research professor with tenure at the institute.
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In June 1978, Art Robinson was asked to consult with the Executive Committee of the Linus Pauling Institute regarding important decisions involving the Institute.
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The members of the Executive Committee included Art Robinson, Pauling, and Executive Vice President Richard Hicks.
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Art Robinson requested thirty days to consider the resignation and ultimately refused.
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The board granted Art Robinson a leave of absence, and passed all executive authority to Pauling, later electing him president and director of the institute.
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Art Robinson responded to the dismissal by charging that he, not Pauling, had done the experimental work at the institute, and that "Linus has not personally contributed significant research work on vitamin C and human health".
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Art Robinson filed a lawsuit against the Institute for $25.5 million, finally settling for $575,000.
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Art Robinson later moved to Oregon and founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine there in 1980.
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Art Robinson is the president of the OISM, which is a 501 non-profit organization located in Cave Junction, Oregon.
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Art Robinson asserted in 2008 that the petition has over 31,000 signatories, with 9,000 of these holding a PhD degree.
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Art Robinson faced Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio in the November 2010 general election.
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Art Robinson, running unopposed, became the Republican nominee for Oregon's 4th congressional district, to again face incumbent DeFazio, who had defeated Art Robinson's son Matthew in a landslide in the Democratic primary.
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Art Robinson ran for a third time for Oregon's 4th congressional district in 2014.
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Art Robinson was unopposed in the Republican primary and faced another rematch in the general election with DeFazio, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary.
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Art Robinson lost the election with 116,534 votes to DeFazio's 181,624.
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Art Robinson ran for a fourth time for Oregon's 4th congressional district in 2016.
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Art Robinson ran against Jo Rae Perkins, a former Linn County Republican party chairwoman, in the primary election and won with 67 percent of the vote.
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Art Robinson faced DeFazio, who won his primary election with 93 percent of the vote.
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Art Robinson challenged DeFazio for a fifth time in Oregon's 4th congressional district.
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Art Robinson filed to run against DeFazio but dropped out on the final day of the registration period to run for Oregon State Senate District 2, instead, to replace retiring Republican incumbent Herman Baertschiger Jr.
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Art Robinson argues for balancing the federal budget, defunding earmarks and ending special-interest influence in Washington.
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Art Robinson is a signatory to A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism, a petition circulated by the Discovery Institute to promote the pseudoscientific intelligent design theory.
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In 2011, Robinson alleged that Oregon State University was part of a conspiracy to retaliate against him for his political activism by expelling his three children, all of whom were graduate students there.
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Art Robinson was succeeded in the Senate by his son, Noah Art Robinson.
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Art Robinson is a non-denominational Christian and lives in Cave Junction, Oregon.
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Art Robinson was married to Laurelee Robinson until her death in 1988.