Lawrence B. Stringer

Lawrence Beaumont Stringer ( born February 24, 1866 in Atlantic City, New Jersey; † December 5, 1942 in Lincoln, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1876, Lawrence Stringer came with his parents to Lincoln, Illinois, where he attended the public schools. In 1887 he graduated from the local Lincoln College. In the meantime, he worked as a newspaper reporter. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1890 and 1892 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois. After a subsequent law degree at the Chicago College of Law and was admitted as an attorney of his 1896 he began to work in Lincoln in this profession. In July 1900 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in Kansas City, was nominated on the William Jennings Bryan for the second time as a presidential candidate; 1900-1904 he was a member of the Illinois Senate. In 1904, Stringer competed unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Illinois. Between 1905 and 1913 he was Chief Justice of the Illinois State Court of Claims. In 1908, he sought without success to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Stringer was in the newly established 26th and state-wide electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1913. Since he resigned in 1914 to a bid again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. 1914 Lawrence Stringer ran again unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives again practiced as a lawyer. Since 1918 until his death on December 5, 1942, he was district judge in Logan County.