Patrick McLane
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Patrick McLane (March 14, 1875 – November 13, 1946) was a
U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
.
Biography
Patrick McLane was born in
County Mayo, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States in 1882 with his parents, who settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He worked in the coal mines of Scranton for thirteen years. During the Spanish–American War he served in the Eleventh Regiment of the United States Army, in 1898 and 1899. He became a locomotive
engineer. He was a member of the Scranton School Board from 1904 to 1911. He served as a delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1905, and as a member of the Democratic State committee in 1914.
McLane presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the
1924
.
He was employed as a locomotive engineer until his death, aged 71, in Scranton in 1946. He was interred in Cathedral Cemetery.
References
- ^ CANNON'S PRECEDENTS VOLUME VI (PDF). 1935. p. 76. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- United States Congress. "Patrick McLane (id: M000536)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-02-11
- The Political Graveyard
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