George P. Lawrence

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George P. Lawrence

George Pelton Lawrence (born May 19, 1859 in Adams , Massachusetts , †  November 21, 1917 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1913 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Lawrence attended Drury Academy until 1876 and then Amherst College until 1880 . After a subsequent law degree at Columbia University and his admission to the bar in 1883, he began to work in North Adams in this profession. Between 1885 and 1894 he was a judge in the northern part of Berkshire County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . From 1895 to 1897 he was a member and since 1896 President of the Senate of Massachusetts .

After the death of MP Ashley B. Wright , Lawrence was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the first Massachusetts seat , where he took up his new mandate on November 2, 1897. After seven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1913 . From 1905 to 1911 he headed the War Department's Expenditure Control Committee. The Spanish-American War of 1898 also fell during his time as Congressman .

In 1912, Lawrence decided not to run again for Congress. Between July and September 1913 he was a member of the Public Service Commission in his home state. On November 21, 1917, George Lawrence committed suicide by jumping from the eighth floor of a hotel in Atlantic City. He was buried in North Adams.

Web links

  • George P. Lawrence in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)