Lorenzo Burrows

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Lorenzo Burrows (March 15, 1805 - March 6, 1885) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Groton, Connecticut, he attended the academies at Plainfield, Connecticut and Westerly, Rhode Island. He moved to New York and settled in Albion in Orleans County 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 treasurer of Orleans County in 1840 and was asignee in bankruptcy for Orleans County in 1841. He was supervisor of the town of Barre in 1845, and was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1853.

Burrows was New York State Comptroller from 1855 to 1857, and was director of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Co. He was chosen as a regent of the University of New York in 1858 and appointed one of the commissioners of Mount Albion Cemetery in 1862, serving in both of these capacities at the time of his death in Albion in 1885. Interment was in Mount Albion Cemetery.

Burrows' uncle, Daniel Burrows, was a United States Representative from Connecticut.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress