Jesse Lazear (December 12, 1804 – September 2, 1877) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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Biography

Lazear was born to Thomas Lazear, Esq., and Elizabeth (Braddock) in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.http://ppolinks.com/greeneconnections/THRJ-AN001-0000.pdf He received a limited schooling, taught school, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as Recorder of Deeds for

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, from 1829 to 1832. Lazear was a bank cashier of the Farmers & Drovers' Bank in

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from 1835 to 1867. Lazear was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. He served as chairman of the

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during the Thirty-seventh Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864. Lazear was a delegate to the Union National Convention at

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in 1866. He retired to his country home, "Windsor Mill Farm", in

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, in 1867. He served as president of the Baltimore & Powhatan Railroad Company from 1871 to 1874. Lazear died at his country home in 1877 and was interred in Green Mount Cemetery in Waynesburg.

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