Louis McLane

Louis McLane ( born May 28, 1786 in Smyrna, Delaware, † October 7, 1857 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician, Senator, finance and foreign minister.

Life and career

McLane was born in Smyrna and went to a private school. At the age of 17, he was hired for a year on the USS Philadelphia as a sailor. At 18, he then went to the Newark College, later the University of Delaware and studied law. In 1807 he started his own law practice in his hometown.

After completing his military service and the war ended in 1812, he took care increasingly about his political influence and was elected from 1817 to 1827 five times in a row as the representative of the Federalists in the House of Representatives of the United States. He has been elected for a sixth time, but it refused and moved as a representative of Delaware from March 4, 1827 in the U.S. Senate. There he laid down his mandate on 16 April 1829 to become ambassador of the United States in the UK. Upon his return, President Andrew Jackson appointed him as finance minister in his cabinet, where he became the successor of Samuel D. Ingham on August 8, 1831. On 29 May 1833 he took over as successor to Edward Livingston, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which he held until 30 June 1834. In the meantime he had gone over to the Democrats, founded by Andrew Jackson.

After his time as foreign minister, he moved to Baltimore and was from 1837 to 1847 president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. From 1845 to 1846 he served then again as ambassador in London.

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