Henry F. Lawrence

Henry Franklin Lawrence (born January 31, 1868 in Greensburg , Decatur County , Indiana , †  January 12, 1950 in Cameron , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Shortly after he was born, Henry Lawrence came to Missouri with his parents, where he attended public schools including high school and Stanberry Normal School . He then moved to Cameron, Missouri, where he worked in the banking industry. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1907 and 1911, Lawrence worked as an administrative clerk in Daviess County ; from 1914 to 1918 he was mayor of Cameron.

In the congressional election of 1920 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Jacob L. Milligan on March 4, 1921 , whom he had defeated in the election. Since he lost to Milligan in the 1922 elections, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1923 . In 1924, Lawrence was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland , where President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for re-election. He later worked for the Missouri State Treasury. Henry Lawrence died in Cameron on January 12, 1950. He was married to Jessie Lee Lawson (1870-1958), with whom he had two children.

Web links

• Henry F. Lawrence in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry F. Lawrence in the database of Find a Grave (English)