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Senate Years of Service: 1913-1917 Party: Democrat
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LANE, 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.
BibliographyHolbo, Paul S. Senator Harry Lane: Independent
Democrat in Peace and War. In Experiences in a Promised Land. Edited by
Thomas Edwards and Carlos Schwantes. pp. 242-59. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986;
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 65th Cong., 3rd sess., 1920. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920.
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