James Lawrence (lawyer)

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James Lawrence

James Lawrence (born January 15, 1851 in Old Washington , Ohio , † July 4, 1914 in Brookside , West Virginia ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was Attorney General of Ohio from 1884 to 1886 . The Congressman William Lawrence was his father.

Career

James Lawrence was born in Guernsey County about three years after the end of the Mexican-American War . Nothing is known about his youth. He attended public schools and graduated from Kenyon College in 1871 . In college he was a member of the Theta Delta Chi and the Phi Alpha Delta . Then he studied law with Joseph W. White in Cambridge, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1874. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio and began practicing at GH Foster's office. In the end he became his partner and remained so until 1893. He then became the boss of Lawrence and Estep.

The Democratic Party nominated Lawrence in 1883 for the office of Attorney General. In the following election he won a victory over Republican Moses B. Earnhart. In 1885 Lawrence ran again for office, but lost to Republican Jacob A. Kohler . He married Jennie Gardner Porter in 1888. The couple had three children. Their names were Harriet and the twins Keith and Margaret R. Lawrence was Corporate Council of the City of Cleveland in 1893 and 1894. From 1896 to 1911 he was a professor of law at the School of Law at Western Reserve University . Lawrence was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1902 and re-elected in 1910. He held the office until his death on July 4, 1914, which took place in Brookside, West Virginia, when he was on vacation with his wife.

Lawrence was a Freemason .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b George Irving Reed, Emilius Oviatt Randall, and Charles Theodore Greve: Bench and bar of Ohio , Volume 2, Century Publishing and Engraving Company, p. 247
  2. ^ A b c Thomas Edward Powell: The Democratic Party of the State of Ohio , Volume 2, The Ohio Publishing Company, p. 233
  3. ^ A b c d Elroy McKendree Avery: A History of Cleveland and Its Environs, The Heart of New Connecticut , Lewis Publishing Company, 1918, pp. 82f
  4. ↑ James Harrison Kennedy and Wilson Miles Day: The bench and bar of Cleveland , The Cleveland Printing and Publishing Company, p. 282
  5. ^ A b c d William B. Neff: Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio , Historical publishing Company, 1921, p. 227
  6. ^ Joseph Patterson Smith, History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, pp. 473 and 512
  7. ^ Simeon D. Fess : Ohio, A four volume reference library on the History of a Great State, Volume 5, Supplementary Biographical, Lewis Publishing Company, 1937, p. 202, OCLC 418516
personal data
SURNAME Lawrence, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Washington , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1914
Place of death Brookside , West Virginia