Lawrence Brock Explained

Lawrence Brock
State1:Nebraska
District1:3rd
Term Start1:January 3, 1959
Term End1:January 3, 1961
Preceded1:Robert Dinsmore Harrison
Succeeded1:Ralph F. Beermann
Party:Democratic
Birth Place:near Columbus, Nebraska
Birth Date:16 August 1906
Death Place:Zion, Illinois
Restingplace:Wakefield Cemetery, Wakefield, Nebraska

Lawrence Brock (August 16, 1906  - August 28, 1968) was a Nebraska Democratic politician.

Brock was born near Columbus, Nebraska. He graduated from Leigh High School and then the College of Pharmacy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1929. He became a pharmacist in Madison, Nebraska. He then became a cattle feeder and farmer and the president of Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association, Cornbelt Livestock Feeders Association, and Northeast Nebraska Rural Electric Association.

Brock was a member of the Nebraska Highway Advisory Commission and then a delegate to the 1956 Democratic National Convention He was the chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party from 1954 to 1956. In 1958 he was elected to the Eighty-sixth United States Congress serving from January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1961, and failed in his bid to be reelected in 1960. He was then appointed in February 1961 as the administrator of the Farmers Home Administration in Washington, D.C. He died in Zion, Illinois and was buried in Wakefield Cemetery in Wakefield, Nebraska.

References

  1. Web site: . Brock, Lawrence . January 28, 2006 .
  2. Web site: . Brock, Lawrence . January 28, 2006 .