Jesse Lazear

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Jesse Lazear (December 12, 1804–September 2, 1877) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Jesse Lazear was born in Rich Hill Township, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling, taught school, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as recorder for Greene County, Pennsylvania, from 1829 to 1832. He was a bank cashier of the Farmers & Drovers’ Bank in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, from 1835 to 1867.

Lazear was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during the Thirty-seventh Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864. He was a delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866. He retired to his country home, “Windsor Mill Farm,” in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1867. He served as president of the Baltimore & Powhatan Railroad Company from 1871 to 1874. He died at his country home in 1877. Interment in Green Mount Cemetery in Waynesburg.

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• Jesse Lazear at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by William Montgomery	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district 1861 - 1863	Succeeded by Amos Myers
Preceded by John Patton	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district 1863 - 1865	Succeeded by George V.E. Lawrence