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David Leo Lawrence

David Leo Lawrence served as Governor of Pennsylvania.

  • Democratic
  • Pennsylvania
  • Former
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Role Governor

Current assignment referenced in the congressional directory.

State Pennsylvania

Representing constituents across the Pennsylvania delegation.

Service period 1959-1963

Years of public service formally recorded.

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Biography

DAVID LEO LAWRENCE was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools and a two-year commercial school and began working at the age of fourteen as an aide to Pittsburgh’s Democratic Party leader. He was also a page for Woodrow Wilson at the 1912 Democratic National Convention. During World War I his enlistment assignment was […]

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