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

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