Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Lawrence, Alexander A. (1869-living 1913)
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Author: William Harden
p. 707-708

   HON. ALEXANDER A. LAWRENCE. One of the adopted sons of Savannah, Georgia, is
Hon. Alexander A. Lawrence, member of the state legislature and an able lawyer
of the city. He is qualified by his professional experience and success, his
integrity and his qualities of mind and heart for the position to which his
political and personal friends have called him.

   Mr. Lawrence was born at Marietta, Georgia, on April 5, 1869, and comes of a
Southern family, his father, Robert DeTreveille Lawrence having been born at
Beaufort, South Carolina, and his mother, whose maiden name was Annie E.
Atkinson, in Camden county, Georgia. They reside at the present time at
Marietta, where the father has lived since 1842, having gone there as a child
with his father in that year. The elder gentleman is a civil engineer by
profession and he is a Confederate veteran of the Civil war, in which he served
in the signal corps, in the southern army.

   Mr. Lawrence, whose name heads this review, received his preliminary
education in the common schools of this birthplace, Marietta, and subsequently
entered the University of Georgia at Athens, from which institution he was
graduated with the class of 1890. He had in the meantime come to the conclusion
to adopt the law as his profession and made preparatory study for the profession
at Brunswick, being admitted to the bar in 1891. He first hung out his shingle,
as common parlance has it, at St. Mary's in Camden county, and remained there
two or three years, from the first giving evidence of an unusually good legal
mind. In 1894 he moved to Savannah and became established in the practice of law
in this city, which has ever since been his home. In 1900 he formed a law
partnership with W. W. Osborne, under the firm name of Osborne & Lawrence, and
the same has developed into one of the prominent and successful law firms in the
city. This concern, in addition to a large general practice, is the legal
representative of the Savannah Electric Railway Company, which operates the
electric street railway system in Savannah.

   Mr. Lawrence is one who gives his support to the men and measures of the
Democratic party. In 1904, in manifestation of the general high regard in which
he is held, he was elected a member of the Georgia state legislature for the
regular term of two years. Recommended by his past record in such capacity, he
was again elected to the office in 1908 and once more succeeded himself in 1910.
His legislative district embraces Chatham county. He has proved a most useful
member of the state assembly, his work therein being to a considerable extent in
the nature of opposing needless and harmful legislation, rather than in the
introduction of new bills. In the session ending in 1911 he was chairman of the
committee on constitutional amendments, and has been a member of both the
general judiciary and the special judiciary committees.

   Mr. Lawrence was formerly a member of the Savannah Volunteer Guards, and as
such enlisted as a private for service in the Spanish-American war, his company
being a part of the Second Georgia Regiment. Later he was transferred to the
Third Georgia Regiment, in which he was made lieutenant of Company K.

   Mr. Lawrence finds pleasure in fraternal association with his fellow men and
is prominent in a number of organizations of such character, among which are the
Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Eagles, and the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks.

   In 1900 Mr. Lawrence married Miss Isabel Ashby Paine, who was born in
Charleston, South Carolina, and they have four interesting children, namely:
Harriet, Alexander A., Jr., Ann and Virginia.


Additional Comments:
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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