Franklin Knight Lane
Franklin Knight Lane ( born July 15, 1864, Queens County, Prince Edward Iceland, Canada, † May 18 1921 in Rochester, Minnesota ) was an American politician (Democratic Party) of Canadian origin, the Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson belonged as Interior Minister.
Lawyer and journalist
Lane was still a small boy when his parents moved with him to California in 1870, where the family settled in the Napa Valley. He studied at the University of California, at the Law School, the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, he graduated in 1886. In 1888 he was admitted to the Bar of California.
As a result, he initially turned to journalism and worked 1891-1895 as a correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle as well as an editor for the Tacoma Daily News. Lane returned to San Francisco, where he worked as a trial attorney of the city; after, he was prosecutor of the congruent with the city of San Francisco County. Unsuccessful remained his candidature as governor of California in 1902 and as mayor of San Francisco the following year.
Political Activities
After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 he belonged to the launched by Mayor Eugene Schmitz Relief Committee (Committee of Fifty ). A little later, he traveled to Washington to talk to President Theodore Roosevelt about the future of Yosemite National Park. This was impressed by Lane and delegated him to the Interstate Commerce Commission, chaired he finally took over on 1 January 1913.
On March 6, the same year Franklin Lane joined the cabinet of new president Woodrow Wilson in as Minister of the Interior. Among his most important achievements is the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916; during his tenure was the Ministry, whose leadership floor had previously been located in the building of the Patent Office, a separate seat Lane strove for the social security of the employees of his agency and founded the Home Club to promote internal cooperation.
Political clashes with the President and the low pay as government agents led to Lane's resignation on March 1, 1920, after which he took over the office of Vice- President of the Pan - American Petroleum Company. He died the following year during heart surgery. His ashes were scattered over the Yosemite National Park.
Appreciation
After Franklin Knight Lane was named a High School in Brooklyn. He gained higher profile again, as he was quoted in 1962 Pale in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Fire ( Pale Fire ).