Herbert J. Drane

Herbert Jackson Drane ( born June 20, 1863 in Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, † August 11 1947 in Lakeland, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1933 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Herbert Drane attended the public schools in Louisville and the Brévards Academy in his native Franklin. In 1881, he moved first to Macon, Georgia, and then in the State of Florida, where he was in the local Polk County one of the founders of the city of Lakeland. In his new home Drane worked in the real estate and insurance industries. But he was also engaged in the railroad business and in fruit cultivation. Between 1888 and 1892 he served as mayor of Lakeland; 1896 to 1899, he served as County Commissioner District in Polk County. From 1889 to 1901 he was employed by the management of the House of Representatives from Florida.

Politically Drane was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1903 and 1905 he sat in the House of Representatives of his State; 1913 to 1917 he was a member of the Senate of Florida, which he was president from 1913 to 1915. In the congressional elections of 1916 Drane was the first electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stephen M. Sparkman on March 4, 1917. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1933 eight legislatures. In this time were, among other things, the First World War and the beginning of the world economic crisis. At that time the 18th, the 19th and the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and adopted.

In 1932 Drane has not been nominated by his party for re-election. Between 1933 and 1937 he was a member of the Federal Power Commission. He then worked again in the real estate and insurance industries as well as in the cultivation of citrus fruits. Herbert Drane died on August 11, 1947 in Lakeland, where he was also buried.

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