Lorenzo Burrows (March 15, 1805 – March 6, 1885) was an American merchant, banker and politician.

Life

He attended the academies at

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and

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. He moved to New York and settled in Albion, N.Y., in 1824. He was employed as a clerk until 1826 when he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He assisted in establishing the Bank of Albion in 1839 and served as cashier. He was

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of Orleans County in 1840 and was

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for Orleans County in 1841. He was

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of the Town of

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in 1845, and was elected as a Whig to the 31st and

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es, serving from March 4, 1849 to March 4, 1853. In August 1852, he declined to be appointed

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by President

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. Instead, Fillmore (a fellow New York Whig) chose Connecticut Whig

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. He was eighteenth

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from 1856 to 1857, elected on the American Party ticket in

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. He won 33.98% of the vote over the Republican, and the two Democrats. He ran unsuccessfully for

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on the American Party ticket in

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. Unlike three years previously, where he won with slightly over a third of the vote, he only narrowly got over ten percent this election while both the reunited Democratic Party and the recently established Republican Party both won over forty percent. He was director of the

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International Bridge Co. He was chosen as a

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in 1858 and appointed one of the commissioners of

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in 1862, serving in both of these capacities until his death in 1885. He was buried at Mount Albion. His uncle

Daniel Burrows Daniel Burrows (October 26, 1766 – January 23, 1858) was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was the uncle of Lorenzo Burrows who was a United States Representative from New York. He was born at Fort Hill, Connecticut where h ...

was a United States Representative from

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. His brother

Latham A. Burrows Latham Avery Burrows (August 30, 1792 Groton, New London County, Connecticut – September 25, 1855 Buffalo, Erie County, New York) was an American politician from New York. Life He was the son of Rev. Roswell Burrows (1768–1837) and Jerusha ...

was a

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. Both served in Congress or in the state legislature in the 1820s.

References

Sources

Political Graveyard

His declination to be Postmaster General, in NYT on August 27, 1852
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''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 34; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) {{DEFAULTSORT:Burrows, Lorenzo 1805 births 1885 deaths People from Groton, Connecticut People from Albion, Orleans County, New York New York State Comptrollers American bankers New York (state) Know Nothings Regents of the University of the State of New York Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople