Lorenzo Crounse was a Nebraska

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 Republican politician

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 best known as the eighth Governor of Nebraska

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Early life

Born in Schoharie County, New York

Schoharie County, New York

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 on January 27, 1834, Crounse attended the New York Conference seminary in Charlotteville, New York. After teaching school for a while, he went on to become a lawyer and established a law practice at Fort Plain, New York

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. During the Civil War

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 he organized Battery K, New York Light Artillery and became a captain in 1861. He served for a year but was discharged after suffering wounds at a battle on the Rappahannock River

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 in Virginia.

Political career

Crounse moved to the Nebraska Territory

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 in 1864, and became part of the territorial legislature and later was a delegate to the state's constitutional convention. He became a Justice of Nebraska state supreme court from 1867 to 1873, and after his term expired, ran and was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (1873–1877). He declined to run again in 1876.
He became an internal revenue collector for the district of Nebraska in 1879, and then was appointed Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury

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 on April 27, 1891. He resigned on October 31, 1892 to become the 12th governor of Nebraska. During his term, future Nebraska representative William Ezekiel Andrews worked as his private secretary. He served until 1895, and then served briefly in the Nebraska state senate in 1901. Lorenzo Crounse died in Omaha

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 in 1909. A Nebraska town (now extinct) near Lincoln was named after him.

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