| George Pelton Lawrence | |
| Image Name: | George P Lawrence Massachusetts Congressman circa 1908.jpg |
| Caption: | George P. Lawrence circa 1908 |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| District: | 1st |
| Term: | November 2, 1897 – March 3, 1913 |
| Preceded: | Ashley B. Wright |
| Succeeded: | Allen T. Treadway |
| Birth Date: | May 19, 1859 |
| Birth Place: | Adams, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Place: | New York, New York, U.S. |
| Office4: | Judge of the District Court of North Berkshire |
| Term Start4: | 1885 |
| Term End4: | 1894 |
| Office3: | Member of the Massachusetts Senate |
| Term Start3: | 1895 |
| Term End3: | 1897 |
| Office2: | President of the Massachusetts Senate |
| Term Start2: | 1896 |
| Term End2: | 1897 |
| Preceded2: | William M. Butler |
| Succeeded2: | George E. Smith |
| Party: | Republican |
George Pelton Lawrence (May 19, 1859 – November 21, 1917) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Lawrence was the son of Dr. George C. Lawrence and his wife, Jane E. Pelton, and also the nephew of New York City Congressman Guy Ray Pelton. He graduated from Drury Academy in 1876 and from Amherst College in 1880. Lawrence studied law at the Columbia Law School.On June 12, 1889, Pelton married Susannah Hope Bracewell (1866-1914).
Lawrence was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in North Adams.
Lawrence was appointed judge of the judicial district of northern Berkshire, County in 1885. Lawrence resigned his judgeship in 1894 upon being elected to the Massachusetts Senate.
Lawrence served in the senate from 1895 to 1897 and was its President, in 1896 and 1897.
Lawrence was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ashley B. Wright. Lawrence was reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from November 2, 1897, to March 3, 1913.[1] While in Congress Lawrence was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses).
Lawrence was not a candidate for renomination in 1912, and from July 1 to September 17, 1913, was a member of the Massachusetts Public Service Commission.
Lawrence jumped from an eighth-floor window and fell to his death, at the Belmont Hotel, New York, New York;[2] interment was in Hillside Cemetery, North Adams.