Lorenzo De Medici Sweat

Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (born May 26, 1818 in Parsonsfield , York County , Massachusetts , † July 26, 1898 in Portland , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1865 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now Maine, Lorenzo Sweat attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick until 1837 . After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission as a lawyer in 1841, he began to practice in his new profession in New Orleans ( Louisiana ). After returning to Maine, he settled in Portland. There he was the legal representative of this city between 1856 and 1860. He also held a number of local offices there.

Politically, Sweat was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1862 he was a member of the Maine Senate . That same year he was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Maine . There he took over from John Noble Goodwin on March 4, 1863 . Since he was defeated by the Republican John Lynch in the following elections in 1864 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1865 . This was determined by the events of the civil war .

In 1866, John Sweat ran again unsuccessfully to return to Congress. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Horace Greeley was nominated as a joint presidential candidate for his party and the Liberal Republicans . There Sweat was elected to the Democratic National Committee , of which he was a member for four years. In 1867 and 1873 he was the American commissioner for the world exhibitions in Paris and Vienna . Lorenzo Sweat died in Portland on July 26, 1898.

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SURNAME	Sweat, Lorenzo De Medici
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Parsonsfield , York County , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1898
Place of death	Portland , Maine