Jesse Lazear

Jesse Lazear ( born December 12, 1804 Greene County, Pennsylvania, † September 2, 1877 in Baltimore County, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1865 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jesse Lazear received only a limited education. He then worked for a short time as a teacher and trade. From 1829 to 1832 he was employed by the government in Greene County. Between 1835 and 1867, with the interruption during his time as a congressman, he was cashier at the Farmers & Drovers ' Bank in Waynesburg. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1860 Lazear was in the 20th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Montgomery on March 4, 1861. After a re-election in the 24th district of his state, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1865 two legislative sessions. Between 1861 and 1863 Lazear was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditure on public property. His time as an MP was shaped by the events of the Civil War. In 1864 he gave up another candidacy.

In August 1866 Lazear participated in Philadelphia as a delegate to the National Union Convention. Since 1867 he lived on his estate Windsor Mill Farm in Baltimore County in Maryland. Between 1871 and 1874 he was president of the railroad company Baltimore & Powhatan Railroad Co. He died on September 2, 1877 at his estate in Maryland.