Lawrence R. Ellzey

Lawrence Russell Ellzey (born March 20, 1891 in Wesson , Copiah County , Mississippi , † December 7, 1977 in Jackson , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1932 and 1935 he represented the seventh constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lawrence Ellzey attended rural schools in his home country and then, until 1912, Mississippi College in Clinton . He later studied at the University of Chicago . During the First World War he was a soldier in the US Army . There he belonged to a quartermaster unit. Between 1920 and 1922 he was a school board ( Superintendent of Education ) in Lincoln County , Mississippi. He then taught until 1928 as a teacher at the Agricultural High School in Wesson; between 1928 and 1932 he directed the Copiah Lincoln Junior College .

Ellzey was a member of the Democratic Party . After the death of longtime Congressman Percy Quin , he won the by-election in the seventh district of Mississippi. In the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , he first ended the term of office of his predecessor. After a re-election in the regular congressional elections in 1932, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress between March 15, 1932 and January 3, 1935. For the elections of 1934 he was no longer nominated by his party.

After his tenure in Congress ended, Ellzey got into the insurance business. In 1942 and 1943 he was on the board of the Mississippi Salvage Campaign. He became a resident of Jackson, the state capital of Mississippi. He also spent his old age there until his death in 1977.

Web links

• Lawrence R. Ellzey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lawrence R. Ellzey in the database of Find a Grave (English)