Edward A. Lawrence

Edward Arthur Lawrence (November 2, 1831 Bay Side, Queens County, New York – 1883) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Effingham Lawrence (1779–1850), First Judge of the Queens County Court from 1818 to 1823, and Ann (Townsend) Lawrence (1786–1845). On December 7, 1855, he married Hannah Russell Mickle (b. 1837), daughter of Mayor of New York Andrew H. Mickle (1805–1863).

As a Democrat, he was Supervisor of the Town of Flushing for twelve years, a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co., 1st D.) in 1858 and 1859, and a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) in 1860 and 1861.

He was buried at the Lawrence Burying Ground in Bay Side.

Assemblyman Solomon Townsend (1746–1811) was his grandfather; State Senator Samuel Townsend (d. 1790) was his great-grandfather.

Sources

The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 442, 486 and 489)
Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York by William D. Murphy (1861; pg. 76ff)
OBITUARY NOTES; E. A. LAWRENCE, a prominent Democratic politician... in NYT on June 5, 1883

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External links

Edward A. Lawrence at Find a Grave

New York State Assembly
Preceded by David R. Floyd-Jones	New York State Assembly Queens County, 1st District 1858–1859	Succeeded by Stephen Taber
New York State Senate
Preceded by Joshua B. Smith	New York State Senate 1st District 1860–1861	Succeeded by Monroe Henderson

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