Lorenzo Burrows

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Lorenzo Burrows (March 15, 1805 in Groton, New London County, Connecticut – March 6, 1885 in Albion, Orleans County, New York) was an American merchant, banker and politician.

Life

He attended the academies at Plainfield, Connecticut and Westerly, Rhode Island. He moved to New York and settled in Albion, N.Y., 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 Assignee 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 31st and 32nd United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1849 to March 4, 1853. In August 1852, he declined to be appointed United States Postmaster General, President Millard Fillmore chose Samuel D. Hubbard instead.

He was New York State Comptroller from 1856 to 1857, elected on the American Party ticket in 1855. He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York on the American Party ticket in 1858.

He was director of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Co. He was chosen as a regent of New York University in 1858 and appointed one of the commissioners of Mount Albion Cemetery in 1862, serving in both of these capacities until his death in 1885. He was buried at Mount Albion.

His uncle Daniel Burrows was a United States Representative from Connecticut. His brother Latham A. Burrows (1792–1855) was a New York State Senator.

Sources

Lorenzo Burrows at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Political Graveyard
His declination to be Postmaster General, in NYT on August 27, 1852
Google Book The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 34; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Washington Hunt	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 34th congressional district 1849–1853	Succeeded by Walter L. Sessions
Political offices
Preceded by James M. Cook	New York State Comptroller 1856–1857	Succeeded by Sanford E. Church

v t e New York State Comptrollers

Sands* Curtenius Jones Henry Jenkins McIntyre Savage Marcy S Wright Flagg Cooke Collier Flagg Fillmore Hunt Fuller J Wright Cook Burrows Church Denniston Robinson Hillhouse Allen Nichols Hopkins Robinson Olcott Wadsworth Davenport Chapin Wemple Campbell Roberts Morgan Gilman Knight Miller Kelsey Wilson Glynn Gaus Kelsey* Williams Sohmer Travis Wendell Maier Fleming Murphy Tremaine Yates* O'Leary Moore McGovern Levitt Regan McCall Hevesi Sanzillo* DiNapoli

* as Auditor General, as Auditor, * Acting

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 76194435 LCCN: nr93052523

Persondata
Name	Burrows, Lorenzo
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	March 15, 1805
Place of birth
Date of death	March 6, 1885
Place of death

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