Loren B. Sessions

Loren B. Sessions (October 12, 1827 in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont – November 20, 1897 in Panama, Chautauqua County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

The family removed to Clymer, New York, in 1835. He attended the common schools, and then worked on his father's farm and taught school. In 1846, he attended Westfield Academy, and in 1848 he graduated from Albany Normal School. Then he taught school, and studied law with Lorenzo Morris in Mayville. Sessions was admitted to the bar in 1852, and practiced.

He was Deputy Clerk of the New York State Assembly in 1854, and Deputy Clerk of the New York State Senate in 1860. He was Supervisor of the Town of Harmony from 1865 to 1870, and from 1873 to 1889; and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Chautaiqua County for seven terms.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (32nd D.) from 1878 to 1881, sitting in the 101st, 102nd, 103rd and 104th New York State Legislatures. In 1883, he was indicted, and tried, for having attempted to bribe Assemblyman Samuel H. Bradley during the United States Senate special elections in New York, 1881, and was acquitted by the jury.

Congressman Walter L. Sessions (1820–1896) was his brother.

Sources

• Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York compiled by Edgar Albert Werner (1884; pg. 291)
• The State Government for 1879 by Charles G. Shanks (Weed, Parsons & Co, Albany NY, 1879; pg. 71f)
• THE LOREN B. SESSIONS CASE in NYT on October 3, 1883
• LOREN B. SESSIONS ACQUITTED in NYT on October 19, 1883
• DEATH LIST OF A DAY; Loren B. Sessions in NYT on November 21, 1897
• History of Harmony, NY transcribed from History of Chautauqua County, New York and Its People by John P. Downs & Fenwick Y. Hedley (1921), at Ray's Place