A. Lawrence Foster

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A. Lawrence Foster (birth and death dates unknown) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

He studied law in Vernon. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Morrisville about 1827.

Foster was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Twenty-seventh Congress). He settled permanently in Virginia.

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• A. Lawrence Foster at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress