Lee Mantle

Lee Mantle (1895)

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 US 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 US, where they are in Salt Lake City ( Utah settled). Here Mantle attended school and in 1870 moved to the Idaho Territory , where he kept afloat financially as a telegraph .

Political career

In 1877, Mantle settled in Butte, Montana, where he served as a financial advisor to Wells Fargo . From 1881 he also published Inter Mountain , a daily newspaper aimed at readers who sympathized with the Republican Party . In the same year he took up his first political office as an alderman in Butte.

In the 1880s Mantle was elected several times as a member of the House of Representatives of Montana and in 1888 took over as spokesman for its chairmanship. In 1892 he was also briefly mayor of Butte.

In 1894, Mantle ran as a Republican member for the office of US Senator, was successfully elected, and took office on February 16, 1895. He did not run for a second term, so that he left Congress on March 3, 1899 .

Late life

Until 1921 Mantle was active as a financial advisor in the real estate and mining sectors; He resigned his work as editor of Inter Mountain 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 almost 83 years, his body was transferred to Mount Moriah Cemetery in Butte, where he is still buried today.

Web links

• Lee Mantle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)