[3] Larrañaga was the retired owner of a ranching company.
He was Deputy Chief Administrator for the City of Albuquerque from 1987 to 1988.
[2] Larrañaga resigned from the House of Representatives and his re-election campaign on October 1, 2018, due to health problems (probable Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease), and died just over a week later on October 9, 2018.
[5][6] Lorenzo is a descendant of Cristoval Larrañaga, Military Surgeon.
On March 7, 2019, the Legislature of the State of New Mexico, in a unanimous vote, named the 27 mile section of US 285 between Clines Corners and Encino, New Mexico, the "Representative Lorenzo "Larry" Larrañaga Corridor".