Milton De Lano

Milton De Lano (born August 11, 1844 in Wampsville , New York , † January 2, 1922 in Syracuse , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1887 and 1891 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Milton De Lano was born in Madison County about two years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . He attended community schools. Then he settled in Canastota . There he went about commercial business for eight years. These years were overshadowed by the civil war. Between 1867 and 1869 he worked as a town clerk in Lenox . He was sheriff in Madison County between 1873 and 1875 and between 1879 and 1881 . He also went into banking, real estate trading and the manufacture of window glass. Between 1883 and 1905 he was a member of the Canastota Education Committee. During this time he was president there between 1893 and 1905. He helped organize the Canastota Northern Railroad Company . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In 1884 he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention .

In the congressional election of 1886 for the 50th Congress he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 26th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Stephen C. Millard on March 4, 1887 . He was re-elected once. Since he on a run again in 1890 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1891 Congress of. During his last term in office he chaired the Committee on Pensions ( 51st Congress ).

After his time at Congress, he went to banking. Between 1908 and 1912 he was a bankruptcy administrator for the Hudson River Power Company . Then in 1912 he became President of the State Bank of Canastota . He died on January 2, 1922 in Syracuse. His body was then interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Canastota.

Web links

• Milton De Lano in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Milton De Lano in the database of Find a Grave (English)