Place of Birth: Rapid City, South Dakota
Date of Birth: June 3, 1961
Ethnicity: German
Lawrence Lessig is an American academic, political activist, and attorney.
Lawrence is a candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States in 2016.
Lawrence’s paternal grandparents were Lester L. Lessig (the son of Christian J. Lessig and Clara A. Hummel) and Katherine Eve Keen (the daughter of Charles E. L. Keen and Margaret May Dietrich).
Source: Lawrence’s father on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org