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Governor David Leo Lawrence

David Leo Lawrence served as Governor of Pennsylvania.

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  • Entered office.
  • Left office.
  • 1959 - 1963 Time in office.

DAVID LEO LAWRENCE was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools and a two-year commercial school and began working at the age of fourteen as an aide to Pittsburgh’s Democratic Party leader. He was also a page for Woodrow Wilson at the 1912 Democratic National Convention. During World War I his enlistment assignment was […]