| 词条 | Elisha Lawrence |
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|image = |name = Elisha Lawrence |order = Acting |office = Governor of New Jersey |term_start = July 25, 1790 |term_end = October 29, 1790 |predecessor = William Livingston as Governor |successor = William Paterson as Governor |office2 = Vice President of the New Jersey Legislative Council |term_start2 = 1789 |term_end2 = 1792 |governor2 = William Livingston Himself William Paterson |predecessor2 = Robert Lettis Hooper |successor2 = Thomas Henderson |term_start3 = 1795 |term_end3 = 1796 |governor3 = Richard Howell |predecessor3 = Thomas Henderson |successor3 = James Linn |birth_date = {{birth year|1746}} |birth_place = |death_date = {{death date and given age|1799|7|23|52–53}} |death_place = |party = Federalist |spouse = |religion = }}Elisha Lawrence (1746{{spnd}}July 23, 1799) was an American Federalist Party[1] politician, who represented Monmouth County in the New Jersey Legislative Council, the precursor to the New Jersey State Senate, from 1780 through 1783, from 1789 through 1792 and in 1795. He served as Vice-President of Council from 1789 through 1792, and again in 1795.[2] BiographyLawrence was born in 1746. As Vice President, he was the acting governor of New Jersey from July 25, 1790, when governor William Livingston died, to October 30, 1790. He was succeeded as governor by William Paterson. A resident of Upper Freehold Township, Lawrence was serving as a Justice of the Peace as early as 1788, and sat with the County Board of Justices and Freeholders, the precursor to the Board of Chosen Freeholders, the governing body of the county. He was Chairman of the Board from May 1795 to May 1796.[3] Lawrence is buried at Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House in Imlaystown, New Jersey. The tombstone reads, “A stranger to all ambition but that of being useful, he was twice vice president of New Jersey for several years presiding judge of the pleas, and after a series of faithful and gallant services in the Revolutionary War he was appointed by his county brigadier general of the Monmouth militia of the surveyed blazing line when wars loud conflict racked the brain. Now sheltered in the realms divine he treads heavens ever-peaceful plan lead on by softer, mercy’s mildest ray while fellow warriors hail him on his way.” The bottom of the stone reads, “By indulgence of the general’s family, his companions in arms erect this tribute of affection the first day of January 1800.”[4] See also
Notes and references1. ^"Governor of New Jersey". NNDB. Retrieved November 27, 2011. {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box|title= Acting Governor of New Jersey|before=William Livingston2. ^Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1914; Thomas F. Fitzgerald 3. ^Minutes, Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders 4. ^"History exhumed from Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery". gmnews. Retrieved June 12, 2012. Governor|after=William Paterson Governor|years=1790}}{{succession box | title=Monmouth County Justices & Freeholders Chairman | before=Joseph Holmes | after=Joseph Holmes | years=1795–1796}}{{s-end}}{{Vice Presidents of the New Jersey Legislative Council}}{{Monmouth County Freeholder Directors}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Elisha}} 10 : 1746 births|1799 deaths|Governors of New Jersey|Members of the New Jersey Legislative Council|County freeholders in New Jersey|New Jersey Federalists|People from Upper Freehold Township, New Jersey|Federalist Party state governors of the United States|People of colonial New Jersey|Burials in New Jersey |
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