Abbott Lawrence

Abbott Lawrence ( born December 16, 1792 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † August 18 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1840 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also U.S. ambassador in the United Kingdom.

Career

Abbott Lawrence attended Groton Academy. Later he was with his brother traders and goods importer in Boston. Then the brothers also worked in textile manufacturing. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and later the Whig Party, founded in 1835. In 1831 he sat on the city council of Boston.

In the congressional elections of 1834, Lawrence was the first electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin Gorham on March 4, 1835. Since he resigned in 1836 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1837. Two years later he was re-elected in the elections of 1838 in the first district of his state in Congress. There he took over from the March 4, 1839 Richard Fletcher, who was two years earlier become his successor. Lawrence practiced his mandate until his resignation on 18 September 1840.

1842 Lawrence was one of the negotiators in establishing the Canadian border in the north- eastern United States. In May 1844, he was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in Baltimore. In the same year he supported the ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign of Henry Clay. Between 1849 and 1852, Abbott Lawrence was the successor of George Bancroft American ambassador in London. Then he took his previous jobs in Boston again. He also founded the Harvard University Affiliated Lawrence Scientific School. He died on 18 August 1855 in Boston and was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.