Lazarus Denison Shoemaker

Lazarus Denison Shoemaker ( born November 5, 1819 in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, † September 9, 1893 in Wilkes -Barre, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lazarus Shoemaker visited the Nazareth Hall College in Pennsylvania and the Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio). Then he studied until 1840 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1842 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Wilkes-Barre to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1866 and 1870 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1870, Shoemaker was in the twelfth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats George Washington Woodward on March 4, 1871. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions. Since 1873 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with pension claims from the revolutionary period ( Committee on Revolutionary Pensions ). In 1874 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Lazarus Shoemaker again practiced as a lawyer. He also went into the banking industry. He died on September 9, 1893 in Wilkes - Barre.