- John L. Blake
John Lauris Blake (
March 25 ,1831 ,Boston, Massachusetts -October 10 ,1899 ,West Orange, New Jersey ) was an American Republican Party politician who representedNew Jersey 's 6th congressional district in theUnited States House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881.Blake was born in
Boston, Massachusetts onMarch 25 ,1831 . He received a classical education and moved toOrange, New Jersey in 1846. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Orange. He was a member of theNew Jersey General Assembly in 1857, and was a delegate to the1876 Republican National Convention .Blake was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress, serving in office from
March 4 ,1879 toMarch 3 ,1881 , but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1880.After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession in Orange, and became president of the Citizens' Gas Light Co. of
Newark, New Jersey , in 1893. He died inWest Orange, New Jersey onOctober 10 ,1899 , and was interred in Rosedale Cemetery in Orange.External links
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#R9M0IPOQD John Lauris Blake] at
The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6940407 John Lauris Blake] atFind A Grave
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