Daniel F. Lafean

Daniel Franklin Lafean ( born February 7, 1861 in York, Pennsylvania, † April 18, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1913, and again from 1915 to 1917, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Lafean attended the common schools and worked in the confectionery industry and in the banking industry. He was director of Gettysburg College and curator of the Gettysburg Seminary. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1902 Lafean was in the 20th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alvin Evans on March 4, 1903. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 five legislative sessions. In 1912 he was not re-elected.

In the 1914 elections Lafean was elected to Congress again in the then state-wide district where he could spend as successor to Anderson Howell Walters a further term of between 4 March 1915, and March 3, 1917. In 1916 he gave up another candidacy. 1917 Lafean was appointed Bank Commissioner of the State Government of Pennsylvania. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. He died on April 18, 1922 in Philadelphia and was buried in his home town of York.