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LOUIS MCLANE (1786-1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 260 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS MCLANE (1786-1857)  ,
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American
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political leader, was born in Smyrna,
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Delaware, on the 28th of May 1786, son of Allan McLane (1746-1829), a well-known Revolutionary soldier . He was admitted to the bar in 1807 . He entered politics as a Democrat, and served in the Federal House of Representatives in 1817-1827 and in the Senate in 1827-1829 . He was minister to England in 1829-1831, and secretary of the
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treasury in Jackson's
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cabinet from 1831 (when in his
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annual , report he argued for the
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United States
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Bank) until May 1833, when he was transferred to the state department . He retired from the cabinet in
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June 1834 . He was president of the Baltimore &
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Ohio railway in 1837-1847, minister to England in 1845-1846, and delegate to the
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Maryland constitutional convention of 1850-1851 . He died in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 7th of
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October 1857 . His son, ROBERT MILLIGAN MCLANE (1815-1898), graduated at West Point in 1837, resigned from the army in 1843, and practised law in Baltimore . He was a Democratic representative in Congress in 1847-1851 and again in 1879-1883, governor of Maryland in 1884-1885, U.S.
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commissioner to
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China in 1853-1854, and minister to Mexico in 1859-186o and to France in 1885-1889 . See R . M . McLane's Reminiscences, 1827-1897 (privately printed, 1897) .

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