Frederick Lansing

Frederick Lansing ( born February 16, 1838 in Manheim, New York, † January 31, 1894 in Watertown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Lansing was born about eight years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in Herkimer County. He attended the Little Falls Academy. Then he studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1859, he began practicing in Watertown. During the Civil War he served in the 8th New York Cavalry. He was from June 23 to October 11, 1863 deputy adjutant in the regiment. Between 1881 and 1885 he sat in the Senate from New York. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1888 for the 51st Congress Lansing was the 22nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Abraham X. Parker on March 4, 1889. He retired after the March 3, 1881 out of the Congress.

On January 31, 1894, he died in Watertown and was then buried in the Brookside Cemetery.