Francis R. Lassiter’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American politician
Was Politician 
Lawyer 
From United States of America 
Type Law 
Politics 
Gender male
Birth 18 February 1866, Petersburg
Death 31 October 1909, Petersburg
(aged 43 years)

Francis Rives Lassiter (February 18, 1866 – October 31, 1909) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, great-nephew of Francis Everod Rives.

Biography

Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Lassiter attended McCabe’s University School at Petersburg and was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1886. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Boston, Massachusetts. He returned to Petersburg, Virginia, in 1888 and continued the practice of law. He became the City attorney of Petersburg from 1888-1893. Lassiter was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to be United States attorney for the eastern district of Virginia in 1893 and served until 1896, when he resigned. He served as captain of Company G, Fourth Regiment, Virginia State Militia. He was appointed supervisor of the Twelfth Census for the Fourth Congressional District of Virginia in 1899.

Lassiter was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sydney P. Epes. He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from April 19, 1900, to March 3, 1903.

Lassiter was elected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Petersburg, Virginia, October 31, 1909. He is interred in Blanford Cemetery. His family papers are held by the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William & Mary.

Electoral history

  • 1900; Lassiter was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 98.65% of the vote in a special election, defeating Republican James S. Cowden; he was re-elected with 60.06% of the vote in the general election, defeating Republican C.E. Wilson.
  • 1906; Lassiter was re-elected unopposed.
  • 1908; Lassiter was re-elected unopposed.
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