Reprint from the Heights Press
Friday, August 3, 1934
BLIND LAWYER IS CANDIDATE
Heights Attorney Seeks Representative Nomination
Being blind since childhood has
not deterred Leonard A. Robinson,
Cleveland Heights resident and
candidate for nomination as state
representative, from and active and
successful career. In fact, Robinson's
friends declare he "sees"
many things that a good many
people whose sight is good do not.
Robinson is an attorney in Cleveland
and is executive chairman of
[photograph]
Leonard A. Robinson
the Citizens Welfare Sightless
committee for the passage of the Dunn
bill in Congress, which seeks to
permit blind people to operate
news stands in Federal buildings
throughout the county.
Born in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1904
Robinson lost his signt when a boy
as the result of an air rifle shot.
In 1922, he was admitted to the
Pennsylvania Institution for the
Instruction of the Blind in
Philadelphia, graduating from there and
from high school.
Going to the University of
Tennessee, he made the regular arts
course in three years and began
the study of law, having gained
teacher's certificate which he did
not use. In 1929 he was graduated
from Western Reserve law school
and was admitted to the Ohio state
bar. He began the practice of law
in Cleveland where his people then
lived.
In a personal conference with
President Roosevelt just prior to
the president's election, Robinson
learned of his sympathy with the
movement to permit blind persons
to operate news stands in Federal
buildings. Robinson has worked
constantly in the interests of the
blind for several years.
Robinson's platform, upon which
he is seeking the Democratic
nomination for state representative
includes the following seven major
points: opposition to all nuisance
taxes, including a general sales
tax; favor of lower real property
tax; relief for schools and teachers,
including assistance to parochials
schools; relief for the handicapped
and needy; adequate relief
for the needy; new sources on income,
including state income tax,
higher inheritance tax and
establishment of a chain store tax;and
favor of compulsory unemployment
insurance.
Robinson lives at 3320 De Sota
avenue, Cleveland Heights.
CITIZENS LEAGUE STATEMENT
Leonard A. Robinson, attorney, resides in Cleveland, age
30; university and law school education; honest and
ambitious; actively interested in Federal legislation for the blind;
would, we believe, make an industrious and dependable
representative.
CAMPAIGN MOTTO
"There is none so blind as who will not see."
NOMINATE
Leonard A. Robinson
State Representative
State Representative
Democratic Ticket
Primaries, August 14, 1934
"There is none so blind as he
who will not see."
Leonard A. Robinson Collection - National Federation of the Blind
