Editing Julia Robinson (section)

==Political work==
In the 1950s Robinson was active in local [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic party]] activities. She was [[Alan Cranston]]'s campaign manager in [[Contra Costa County]] when he ran for his first political office, state controller.<ref name="Julia">
{{cite book|title=Julia: A life in mathematics|url=https://archive.org/details/julialifeinmathe0000reid|url-access=registration|last=Reid|first=Constance|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|year=1996|isbn=0-88385-520-8|location=Washington, DC}}
</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Being Julia Robinson's Sister|last=Reid|first=Constance|publisher=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|year=1996|location=Providence, RI|pages=1486–1492}}</ref>
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|text="I don’t remember exactly what happened, but the end result was that Julia involved herself during those years in the nitty-gritty of Democratic Party politics—she registered voters, stuffed envelopes, rang door- bells in neighborhoods where people expected to be paid for their vote. She even served as Alan Cranston’s campaign manager for Contra Costa County when he successfully ran for state controller—his first political office."|sign=Constance Reid <ref name=":1" />|source=}}

Robinson was also a volunteer for [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]]’s presidential campaigns.<ref name="sciencenews.org"/>