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Name:               Lorenzo Danford
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DANFORD, Lorenzo, (1829 - 1899) 

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 in 1856; 
prosecuting attorney of Belmont County from 1857 to 1861, when he resigned to 
enlist 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; 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; chairman, 
Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-fifth Congress); interment 
in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery. 


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