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  Lane, Harry
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameHarry Lane
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Portland, Oregon , United States
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Born August 28, 1855
DiedMay 23, 1917 (61 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Apr 08, 2017 10:10pm
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InfoLANE, Harry, (grandson of Joseph Lane and nephew of La Fayette Lane), a Senator from Oregon; born in Corvallis, Benton County, Oreg., August 28, 1855; attended the public schools and graduated from Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., in 1876; received a medical degree from the same university in 1878; took postgraduate work in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City; commenced the practice of medicine in San Francisco, Calif.; returned to Oregon and settled in Portland, where he practiced medicine; superintendent of the Oregon State Insane Asylum 1887-1891; mayor of Portland 1905-1909; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1912 and served from March 4, 1913, until his death in San Francisco, Calif., May 23, 1917; chairman, committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Fisheries (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); interment in Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Oreg.


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Father Nathaniel Hart Lane 1823-1878
Grandfather Joseph Lane 1801-1881
Uncle La Fayette Lane 1842-1896
Grandmother Emary Hart Lane 1802-1870

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  11/05/1912 OR US Senate Won 30.07% (+1.29%)
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