Frederick William Lord
Frederick William Lord was an American educator, physician, and politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1847 to 1849.
Early life and education
Born in Lyme, New [London County, Connecticut], he attended Lyme Academy and was graduated from Yale College in 1821. He was a professor of mathematics in Washington College for two years and was in charge of an academy at Baltimore for three years. He studied medicine in Baltimore and was graduated in medicine from Yale College in 1828; he commenced the practice of medicine in Sag Harbor, New York, continuing in his profession there for fifteen years.Career
Lord was a delegate to the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1840, and moved to Greenport, [Suffolk County, New York|Greenport] in 1846 and engaged in agricultural pursuits and the cultivation of fruit and ornamental trees. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1849.He resumed his former pursuits in Greenport and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress and in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress.