Lawrence R. Ellzey
Lawrence Russell Ellzey | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi's 7th district | |
In office March 15, 1932 – January 3, 1935 | |
Preceded by | Percy Quin |
Succeeded by | Dan R. McGehee |
Personal details | |
Born | Wesson, Mississippi, U.S. | March 20, 1891
Died | December 7, 1977 Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 86)
Resting place | Wesson Cemetery, Wesson, Mississippi, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Lawrence Russell Ellzey (March 20, 1891 – December 7, 1977) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. He also served as president of a junior college. He was a Democrat.
Education
[edit]Born on a farm near Wesson, Mississippi, Ellzey attended the rural schools and was graduated from Mississippi College at Clinton, A.B., 1912. He attended the University of Chicago in 1927. He became a teacher in the consolidated county schools of Mississippi between 1912 and 1917.
Wartime
[edit]He volunteered as a private in the Quartermaster Corps on December 13, 1917, and served overseas nine months before being discharged as a first lieutenant on February 20, 1919.
Career in education
[edit]He served as superintendent of education of Lincoln County, Mississippi from 1920 to 1922. He was a teacher in the agricultural high school in Wesson from 1922 to 1928. He served as president of Copiah-Lincoln Junior College in Wesson, Mississippi from 1928 to 1932.
Career in politics
[edit]Ellzey was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress by special election on March 15, 1932, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Percy Quin. He was reelected to the Seventy-third Congress and served from March 15, 1932, until January 3, 1935. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.
Later employment
[edit]He later was employed in the life insurance industry. He worked as an executive secretary for the Mississippi Salvage Campaign from 1942 to 1943.
Death
[edit]Ellzey died in Jackson, Mississippi on December 7, 1977, aged 86, and was interred in Wesson Cemetery, Wesson, Mississippi.
References
[edit]- United States Congress. "Lawrence R. Ellzey (id: E000152)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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- 1891 births
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- United States Army personnel of World War I
- People from Wesson, Mississippi
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- United States Army officers
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi
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- Businesspeople from Jackson, Mississippi