Lorenzo Crounse (January 27, 1834 – May 13, 1909) was a Nebraska Republican politician best known as the eighth Governor of Nebraska.
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Born in Schoharie County, New York on January 27, 1834, Crounse attended the New York Conference seminary in Charlotteville, New York. After teaching school for a while, he went on to become a lawyer and established a law practice at Fort Plain, New York. During the Civil War he organized Battery K, New York Light Artillery and became a captain in 1861. He served for a year but was discharged after suffering wounds at a battle on the Rappahannock River in Virginia.
Crounse moved to the Nebraska Territory in 1864, and became part of the territorial legislature and later was a delegate to the state's constitutional convention. He became a Justice of Nebraska state supreme court from 1867 to 1873, and after his term expired, ran and was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (1873–1877). He declined to run again in 1876. He became an internal revenue collector for the district of Nebraska in 1879, and then was appointed Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury on April 27, 1891. He resigned on October 31, 1892 to become the 12th governor of Nebraska. During his term, future Nebraska representative William Ezekiel Andrews worked as his private secretary. He served until 1895, and then served briefly in the Nebraska state senate in 1901. Lorenzo Crounse died in Omaha in 1909. A Nebraska town (now extinct) near Lincoln was named after him.
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| Preceded by John Taffe |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 1st congressional district 1873–1877 |
Succeeded by Frank Welch |
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| Preceded by James E. Boyd |
Governor of Nebraska 1893–1895 |
Succeeded by Silas A. Holcomb |