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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Danford, Lorenzo
Danford, Lorenzo, a Representative from Ohio; born in Washington Township, Belmont County, Ohio, on October 18, 1829; attended the common schools and a college at Waynesburg, Pa., for two years; studied law; was admitted to the bar at St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, in September 1854, and commenced practice there; presidential elector on the American Party ticket of Fillmore and Donelson in 1856; prosecuting attorney of Belmont County from 1857 to 1861, when he resigned to enlist in the Union Army; during the Civil War enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private; commissioned a lieutenant and later a captain, and served until honorably discharged in August 1864; resumed the practice of his profession in St. Clairsville; presidential elector on the Republican ticket of Lincoln and Johnson in 1864 and of Harrison and Reid in 1892; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of his profession; elected to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his death in St. Clairsville, Ohio, June 19, 1899; interment in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Danford, Lorenzo," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1052 Original Sources, accessed December 6, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UJ8SQSWF1YCQHDL.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Danford, Lorenzo." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1052, Original Sources. 6 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UJ8SQSWF1YCQHDL.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Danford, Lorenzo' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1052. Original Sources, retrieved 6 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UJ8SQSWF1YCQHDL.
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