Lorenzo Crounse

Lorenzo Crounse

Lorenzo Crounse (January 27, 1834 – May 13, 1909) was a Nebraska Republican politician and the eighth Governor of Nebraska.

Early life

Born in Schoharie County, New York, Crounse attended the New York Conference seminary in Charlotteville, New York. While teaching school, he studied law and in 1857 he was admitted to the bar.^[1] In 1860, he married Mary E. Griffiths and they had four children.^[2]

Career

Crounse 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, served for a year; but was discharged after suffering wounds at a battle on the Rappahannock River in Virginia and resumed his law practice.^[3]

Lorenzo Crounse

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 8th 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.^[4]

Death and legacy

After his wife's death in 1882, Crounse remained a widower, and he spent his last years with one of his four children. He died in Omaha and is interred at Fort Calhoun Cemetery, Fort Calhoun, Washington County, Nebraska USA.^[5] A Nebraska town (now extinct) near Lincoln was named after him.

References

External links

• Gov. Lorenzo Crounse papers at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved on 2009-07-06.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• National Governors Association
• Semi-Centennial History of Nebraska

Governors of Nebraska Territorial (1854–67) Burt Cuming Izard Cuming Richardson Morton Black Morton Paddock Saunders State (since 1867) Butler James Furnas Garber Nance Dawes Thayer Boyd Crounse Holcomb Poynter Dietrich Savage Mickey Sheldon Shallenberger Aldrich Morehead Neville McKelvie Bryan McMullen Weaver Bryan Cochran Griswold Peterson Crosby Anderson Brooks Burney Morrison Tiemann Exon Thone Kerrey Orr Nelson Johanns Heineman Ricketts Italics indicate acting governors

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska 1st district A. Weaver McShane Connell Bryan Strode Burkett Pollard Maguire Reavis Thorpe Morehead Luckey Heinke Sweet Copeland Curtis P. Weaver Beermann Callan Denney Thone Bereuter Fortenberry 2nd district Laird Laws McKeighan Mercer G. Hitchcock Kennedy G. Hitchcock Lobeck Jefferis Sears Baldrige Burke C. McLaughlin Buffett O'Sullivan Buffett Hruska Chase Cunningham McCollister Cavanaugh Daub Hoagland Christensen Terry Ashford 3rd district Valentine Dorsey Kem Meiklejohn Maxwell Robinson McCarthy Boyd Latta Stephens Evans Howard Stefan Harrison Brock Beermann Martin V. Smith Barrett Osborne A. Smith 4th district Hainer Stark Hinshaw Sloan M. McLaughlin Norton Sloan Norton Shallenberger Binderup Curtis Miller McGinley Martin 5th district McKeighan Andrews Sutherland Shallenberger Norris Barton Shallenberger Andrews Shallenberger Johnson Shallenberger Carpenter Coffee 6th district Kem Greene Neville Kinkaid Humphrey Simmons At-large Marquette Taffe Crounse Welch Majors Valentine Territory Giddings Chapman Ferguson Estabrook Daily P. Hitchcock