- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker
Lazarus Denison Shoemaker (
November 5 ,1819 –September 11 ,1893 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Lazarus D. Shoemaker was born in
Kingston, Pennsylvania . He attended Nazareth Hall inNazareth, Pennsylvania , andKenyon College inGambier, Ohio . He graduated fromYale College in 1840. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice inWilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania . He was a member of thePennsylvania State Senate from 1866 to 1870.Shoemaker was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses. He served as chairman of the
United States House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions during the Forty-third Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1874. He resumed the practice of his profession and also engaged in banking. He died in Wilkes-Barre in 1893. Interment in Forty Fort Cemetery inForty Fort, Pennsylvania .ources
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