Thomas J. Lane

Thomas J. Lane

Thomas Joseph Lane (born July 6, 1898 in Lawrence , Essex County , Massachusetts , †  June 14, 1994 there ) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1963 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Lane attended Lawrence High School . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1925, he began to work in this profession. He worked for some time as a military lawyer for the United States Army and then as a private lawyer. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1927 and 1938 he was an MP in the Massachusetts House of Representatives . He then sat in the State Senate from 1939 to 1941 .

After the death of the MP Lawrence J. Connery Lane was elected in the by-election for the seventh seat of Massachusetts as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on December 30, 1941. After ten re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1963 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Lane's time in Congress also saw the start of the Cold War , the Korean War and, domestically, the civil rights movement . In 1962 he was not re-elected.

Between 1965 and 1970 Lane was a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Board . He died on June 14, 1994 in Lawrence, his birthplace.

Web links

• Thomas J. Lane in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas J. Lane in the database of Find a Grave (English)