Joseph R. Lane

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

Career

Joseph Lane public schools visited his home and then the Knox College in Galesburg ( Illinois ). After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his admission to the bar in 1880, he began to work in his father's office in Davenport in his new profession.

Lane was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1884 and 1889 he was a member of the Davenport City Council. In the congressional election of 1898 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Iowa . On March 4, 1899, he succeeded George M. Curtis , who had not run for office. Since Lane in turn renounced another candidacy in 1900, he could only hold one term in Congress until March 3, 1901 .

After his tenure in the House of Representatives, Lane returned to work as a lawyer. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate. After that, he no longer appeared politically. Joseph Lane died in Davenport on May 1, 1931.

Web links

• Joseph R. Lane in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph R. Lane in the database of Find a Grave (English)