James Lawrence (1907-1995)
Architect, Civic Leader, & Olympic Rower, of Boston, Massachusetts
He was a lifelong Democrat and served for more than 30-years as a Member of the New England Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, receiving the group's Thurgood Marshall Award in the 1970s. He was a trustee of Wellesley College and an honorary overseer of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He was associated with the English Speaking Union, the New England Opera Theater Inc., the Massachusetts Art Commission, a 1946 state emergency housing commission and the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He belonged to The Country Club in Brookline, the Tavern Club, and the Union Boat Club.
