Lawrence R. Ellzey

Lawrence Russell Ellzey (March 20, 1891 - December 7, 1977) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.

Born on a farm near Wesson, Mississippi, Ellzey attended the rural schools and was graduated from Mississippi College at Clinton, A.B., 1912.He attended the University of Chicago in 1927.He engaged as a teacher in the consolidated county schools of Mississippi 1912-1917. Volunteered as a private in the Quartermaster Corps on December 13, 1917, and served overseas nine months before being discharged as a first lieutenant on February 20, 1919.He served as superintendent of education of Lincoln County, Mississippi from 1920 to 1922.He was a teacher in the agricultural high school Wesson, Mississippi from 1922 to 1928.He served as president of Copiah-Lincoln Junior College, Wesson, Mississippi from 1928 to 1932.

Ellzey was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress, by special election, March 15, 1932, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Percy E. Quin.He was reelected to the Seventy-third Congress and served from March 15, 1932, to January 3, 1935.He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.He engaged in the life insurance business. Executive secretary for the Mississippi Salvage Campaign in 1942 and 1943. Resided in Jackson, Mississippi, where he died December 7, 1977.He was interred in Wesson Cemetery, Wesson, Mississippi.

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