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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkElbridge Gerry LAPHAM
(1814-1890)
Senate Years of Service:
1881-1885Party: RepublicanLAPHAM, Elbridge Gerry, a
Representative and a Senator from New York; born in Farmington,
N.Y., October 18, 1814; attended the public schools and the
Canandaigua Academy; studied civil engineering and law; admitted to
the bar in 1844 and practiced in Canandaigua, N.Y.; member of the
constitutional convention of New York in 1867; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1875, until his resignation
July 29, 1881, having been elected Senator; one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 1876 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against ex-Secretary of War William W.
Belknap; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on
July 22, 1881, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Roscoe Conkling and served from August 2, 1881, to March 3, 1885;
was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Fish and
Fisheries (Forty-eighth Congress); resumed the practice of law in
Canandaigua, N.Y.; died at “Glen Gerry,” on Canandaigua
Lake, N.Y., January 8, 1890; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Canandaigua, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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