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Lawrence Brock
From 1959's Pocket Congressional Directory of the Eighty-Sixth Congress
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd district
In office January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961
Preceded by	Robert Dinsmore Harrison
Succeeded by	Ralph F. Beermann
Personal details
Born	(1906-08-16)August 16, 1906 near Columbus, Nebraska
Died	August 28, 1968(1968-08-28) (aged 62) Zion, Illinois
Resting place	Wakefield Cemetery, Wakefield, Nebraska
Political party	Democratic

Lawrence Brock (August 16, 1906 – August 28, 1968) was a Nebraska Democratic politician.

Brock was born near Columbus, Nebraska. He graduated from Leigh High School and then the College of Pharmacy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1929. He became a pharmacist in Madison, Nebraska. He then became a cattle feeder and farmer and the president of Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association, Cornbelt Livestock Feeders Association, and Northeast Nebraska Rural Electric Association.

Brock was a member of the Nebraska Highway Advisory Commission and then a delegate to the 1956 Democratic National Convention He was the chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party from 1954 to 1956. In 1958 he was elected to the Eighty-sixth United States Congress serving from January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1961, and failed in his bid to be reelected in 1960. He was then appointed in February 1961 as the administrator of the Farmers Home Administration in Washington, D.C. He died in Zion, Illinois and was buried in Wakefield Cemetery in Wakefield, Nebraska.

References

1. "Brock, Lawrence". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved January 28, 2006.
2. "Brock, Lawrence". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 28, 2006.

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska
1st district	A. Weaver McShane Connell Bryan Strode Burkett Pollard Maguire Reavis Thorpe Morehead Luckey Heinke Sweet Copeland Curtis P. Weaver Beermann Callan Denney Thone Bereuter Fortenberry Flood
2nd district	Laird Laws McKeighan Mercer G. Hitchcock Kennedy G. Hitchcock Lobeck Jefferis Sears Baldrige Burke C. McLaughlin Buffett O'Sullivan Buffett Hruska Chase Cunningham McCollister Cavanaugh Daub Hoagland Christensen Terry Ashford Bacon
3rd district	Valentine Dorsey Kem Meiklejohn Maxwell Robinson McCarthy Boyd Latta Stephens Evans Howard Stefan Harrison Brock Beermann Martin V. Smith Barrett Osborne A. Smith
4th district	Hainer Stark Hinshaw Sloan M. McLaughlin Norton Sloan Norton Shallenberger Binderup Curtis Miller McGinley Martin
5th district	McKeighan Andrews Sutherland Shallenberger Norris Barton Shallenberger Andrews Shallenberger Johnson Shallenberger Carpenter Coffee
6th district	Kem Greene Neville Kinkaid Humphrey Simmons
At-large	Marquett Taffe Crounse Welch Majors Valentine
Territory	Giddings Chapman Ferguson Estabrook Daily P. Hitchcock

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