Lee Mantle

Lee Mantle ( born December 13, 1851 in Birmingham, England; † November 18, 1934 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician of British origin, who represented the state of Montana in the U.S. Senate.

Biography

Early life

Lee Mantle spent his childhood in England and emigrated with his mother in 1864, at the age of 13 years, in the U.S., where they located in Salt Lake City (Utah ) settled. Here Mantle visited the school and moved in 1870 in the Idaho Territory, where he held, among others, as Telegraph financially afloat.

Political career

1877 Mantle settled in Butte (Montana), where he worked as a financial consultant for the company Wells Fargo. He also published in 1881 Intermountain, a daily newspaper, which was addressed to readers who sympathized with the Republican Party. In the same year he took over as Assistant in Butte true his first political office.

In the 1880s, Mantle was repeatedly elected to the House of Representatives from Montana and took over in 1888 as a spokesman chaired. In 1892 he was also briefly mayor of Butte.

1894 Mantle ran as a member of Republicans for the office of U.S. Senator, was successfully elected and took office on 16 February 1895. For a second term, he did not run, so he resigned from the Congress on March 3, 1899.

Late life

By 1921, Mantle worked as a financial consultant in the real estate sector and in the mining sector; his work as editor of the Intermountain he laid down in 1901. In 1921 he moved to Los Angeles, where he spent the last 13 years of his life.

After his death at the age of nearly 83 years, his body was transferred to the Mount Moriah Cemetery to Butte, where he still lies buried today.