Frederick Lansing was a U.S. Representative

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 from New York

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Born in Manheim, New York

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, Lansing attended the Little Falls Academy, New York.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1859 and practiced in Watertown, New York.
He served during the Civil War

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 in the Eighth New York Cavalry.
Acting adjutant of that regiment from June 23 to October 11, 1863.
He served as member of the State senate 1881-1885.

Lansing was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-first

51st United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891).
He died in Watertown, New York, January 31, 1894.
He was interred in Brookside Cemetery.

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