LOUIS

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• LOUIS MCLANE (1786-1857)

MCLANE (1786-1857)  , American political leader, was born in Smyrna, 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 treasury in Jackson's cabinet from 1831 (when in his annual , report he argued for the United States Bank) until May 1833, when he was transferred to the state department . He retired from the cabinet in June 1834 . He was president of the Baltimore & Ohio railway in 1837-1847, minister to England in 1845-1846, and delegate to the Maryland constitutional convention of 1850-1851 . He died in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 7th of 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. commissioner to 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) .