George P. Lawrence - US Rep. from MA 1897-1913/Suicide Jumper/Signature

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George P. Lawrence - US Rep. from MA 1897-1913/Suicide Jumper/Signature
George Pelton Lawrence (1859-November 21, 1917) - American politician; was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Lawrence was appointed judge of the judicial district of northern Berkshire County in 1885. Lawrence resigned his judgeship in 1894 upon being elected to the Massachusetts Senate.
Lawrence served in the senate from 1895 to 1897 and was its President, in 1896 and 1897.
Lawrence was elected as a Republican
to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ashley B. Wright.
Lawrence was reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from November 2, 1897, to March 3, 1913. While in Congress Lawrence was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses).
Lawrence jumped from an eighth-floor window and fell to his death, at the Belmont Hotel, New York, New York.
3.6” x 1.6” slip, tipped to trimmed album page, signed in fountain pen. Light pencil notation at the bottom, with light soiling/glue residue, otherwise very good. See Photos.
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