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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsGeorge Pelton LAWRENCE
(1859-1917)
LAWRENCE, George Pelton, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Adams, Berkshire County,
Mass., May 19, 1859; was graduated from Drury Academy in 1876 and
from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1880; studied law at the Columbia
Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice
in North Adams, Mass.; appointed judge of the district of northern
Berkshire in 1885; resigned in 1894 upon being elected to the
Massachusetts senate; served in the State senate 1895-1897 and was
its president in 1896 and 1897; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Ashley B. Wright; reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the six
succeeding Congresses and served from November 2, 1897, to March 3,
1913; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War
(Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1912; member of the Massachusetts Public
Service Commission from July 1 to September 17, 1913; died in New
York City on November 21, 1917; interment in Hillside Cemetery,
North Adams, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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