Lawrence B. Stringer

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Lawrence Beaumont Stringer (born February 24, 1866 in Atlantic City , New Jersey , †  December 5, 1942 in Lincoln , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1876, Lawrence Stringer and his parents came to Lincoln, Illinois, where he attended public schools. In 1887 he graduated from Lincoln College there . In the meantime he worked as a newspaper reporter. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1890 and 1892 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives . After a subsequent law degree at the Chicago College of Law and his admission to the bar in 1896, he began to work in Lincoln in this profession. In July 1900 he took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City , on which William Jennings Bryan was nominated for the second time as a presidential candidate; between 1900 and 1904 he was a member of the Illinois Senate . In 1904, Stringer ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Illinois. Between 1905 and 1913 he was presiding judge on the Illinois State Court of Claims . In 1908, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections .

In the 1912 congressional election , Stringer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the newly established 26th and state-wide constituency of Illinois , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1913. Since he refused to run again in 1914, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1915 . In 1914, Lawrence Stringer ran again unsuccessfully for the US Senate. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives practiced again as a lawyer. He was a district judge in Logan County from 1918 until his death on December 5, 1942 .

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SURNAME Stringer, Lawrence B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stringer, Lawrence Beaumont (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlantic City , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1942
Place of death Lincoln , Illinois