Frederick William Lord (December 11, 1800 – May 24, 1860) was an American educator, physician, and politician who served one term as aUnited States representative from New York from 1847 to 1849.

Born inLyme,New London County, Connecticut, he attended Lyme Academy and was graduated fromYale College in 1821. He was a professor of mathematics inWashington College (inChestertown, Maryland) for two years and was in charge of an academy atBaltimore for three years. He studied medicine in Baltimore and was graduated in medicine from Yale College in 1828; he commenced the practice of medicine inSag Harbor, New York, continuing in his profession there for fifteen years.

Lord was a delegate to theWhig National Convention atHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1840, and moved toGreenport in 1846 and engaged in agricultural pursuits and the cultivation of fruit and ornamental trees. He was elected as aDemocrat to the Thirtieth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1849.

He resumed his former pursuits in Greenport and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress and in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress.

He was elected a delegate to theRepublican National Convention at Chicago in 1860, but on his way to attend the convention was taken ill on the steamerMassachusetts, and died in New York City. Interment was in East Hampton Cemetery,East Hampton.

• United States Congress."Frederick William Lord (id: L000440)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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