sentences:  He placed second in the 1853 election, but no candidate received a majority.In such cases, the Vermont General Assembly chooses a winner; after several unsuccessful ballots during the month of October, the legislature chose Robinson over the first-place finisher, Whig candidate Erastus Fairbanks, after a number of Liberty Party legislators who had supported Lawrence Brainerd switched their support to Robinson.Serving from 1853 to 1854, he was the first Democratic Governor of Vermont and remained the only Democrat elected to the governorship for 110 years.