Education
Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Lawrence graduated from Drury Academy in 1876 and from Amherst College in 1880. Lawrence studied law at the Columbia Law School.
United States representative lawyer politician
Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Lawrence graduated from Drury Academy in 1876 and from Amherst College in 1880. Lawrence studied law at the Columbia Law School.
Lawrence was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in North Adams. Judgeship
Lawrence was appointed judge of the judicial district of northern Berkshire, County in 1885. Lawrence resigned his judgeship in 1894 upon being elected to the Massachusetts Senate.
Massachusetts Senate
Lawrence served in the senate from 1895 to 1897 and was its President, in 1896 and 1897.
Congressional service
Lawrence was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ashley B. Wright. Lawrence was reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from November 2, 1897, to March 3, 1913.
While in Congress Lawrence was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses). Lawrence jumped from an eighth-floor window and fell to his death, at the Belmont Hotel, New York, New New York
Interment was in Hillside Cemetery, North Adams.
George P. Lawrence at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Lawrence was not a candidate for renomination in 1912, and from July 1 to September 17, 1913 was a member of the Massachusetts Public Service Commission.
