Joseph R. Lane

Joseph Reed Lane ( born May 6, 1858 in Davenport, Iowa, † May 1, 1931 ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1901 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Lane attended the public schools of his home and then the Knox College in Galesburg ( Illinois). After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar he began in Davenport in the office of his father to work in his new profession.

Lane was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1884 and 1889 he sat on the city council of Davenport. In the congressional elections of 1898 he was in the second electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1899, the successor of George M. Curtis, who did not stand. Since Lane in 1900 for his part refrained from further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1901.

After the end of his time in the House Lane again worked as a lawyer. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, at the William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. Joseph Lane died on 1 May 1931 in Davenport.

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