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Effingham Lawrence (March 2, 1820 – December 9, 1878) was an American politician known for serving for the shortest term in congressional history, serving for just one day in the
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Biography

Lawrence was born in Bayside,
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, in 1820. He was a descendant of John Lawrence and
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, both
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and pioneer English settlers of Queens, NY. Lawrence moved to Louisiana in 1843 and engaged in the planting and refining of sugar. He served in the
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for some time and then successfully contested the re-election of Jacob Hale Sypher. Lawrence then served for one day in Congress but was not reelected. He died at Magnolia Plantation,
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in 1878.


Contested election

The voting in the 1872 election was characterized by a number of irregularities, with Sypher initially being declared the winner and returned to Congress while Lawrence appealed the election results. Lawrence's belated replacement of Sypher, after courts intervened to nullify the original results and instead deliver the seat to Lawrence, marked the first time since the Civil War that a Democrat had defeated a
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for a seat in Congress from Louisiana. The 1874 voting in which Lawrence failed "re-election" to the seat had already been held before he was seated for the term to which he had, by the later court order, been elected in 1872. Thus, under the congressional calendar in effect at the time, Lawrence was able to serve for one day of the 1873–1875 term to which he had, in the end, been elected. On the following day—March 4, 1875—he was succeeded by
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, a Democrat who had defeated him during the preceding autumn.


See also

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Cornelius Lawrence Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence (February 28, 1791 – February 20, 1861) was a politician from New York. He became the first popularly elected mayor of New York City after the law was changed in 1834. Early life Lawrence was born in Flushing, New Yo ...
, his cousin * Thomas Johnson, shortest-serving
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justice *
William Henry Harrison William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, and had the shortest pres ...
, shortest-serving
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Congressional Biography
1820 births 1878 deaths Businesspeople from New Orleans Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives Politicians from New Orleans People from Queens, New York Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople {{Louisiana-politician-stub