Background
He attended the common schools, and then worked on his father"s farm and taught school.
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Loren Sessions
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Education
In 1846, he attended Westfield Academy, and in 1848 he graduated from Albany Normal School.
Career
The family removed to Clymer, New York, in 1835. Then he taught school, and studied law with Lorenzo Morris in Mayville. Sessions was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practiced.
He was Deputy Clerk of the New York State Assembly in 1854, and Deputy Clerk of the New York State Senate in 1860.
He was Supervisor of the Town of Harmony from 1865 to 1870, and from 1873 to 1889. And Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Chautaiqua County for seven terms.
In 1883, he was indicted, and tried, for having attempted to bribe Assemblyman Samuel H. Bradley during the United States Senate special elections in New York, 1881, and was acquitted by the jury.
Membership
He was a member of the New York State Senate (32nd Doctorate) from 1878 to 1881, sitting in the 101st, 102nd, 103rd and 104th New York State Legislatures.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Republican party