George Lorenzo Otis | |
Term Start: | 1867 |
Term End: | 1868 |
State Senate2: | Minnesota |
District2: | 21st |
Term2: | 1866 |
State House3: | Minnesota |
District3: | 2nd |
Term Start3: | 1857 |
Term End3: | 1858 |
Birth Date: | 7 October 1829 |
Birth Place: | Homer, New York, U.S. |
Death Place: | Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Oakland Cemetery |
George Lorenzo Otis (October 7, 1829 - March 29, 1882) was a lawyer and politician in the U.S. state of Minnesota.[1] He served as the 14th mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and also in both houses of the state legislature.[2] [3] Otis ran for Governor of Minnesota in 1869 as a Democrat, but lost to Republican Horace Austin, receiving 46.6% of the vote.[4]
Otis was born in Homer, New York to Isaac Otis (1798–1853) and Caroline Abigail Curtiss in 1829. He married Mary Virginia Morrison in 1858.[1]