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Senate Years of Service: 1827-1829 Party: Jacksonian
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McLANE, Louis, (father of Robert Milligan McLane),
a Representative and a Senator from Delaware; born in Smyrna, Del., May 28,
1786; attended private schools; entered the United States Navy in 1798 as a midshipman on the
U.S.S. Philadelphia and served one year; attended Newark College; studied law; admitted to the bar
in 1807 and commenced practice in Smyrna; served in the War of 1812; elected to the Fifteenth and
to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1827); reelected to the Twentieth
Congress, but resigned, having been elected a Senator; elected to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1827, until April 16, 1829, when he resigned; appointed by President Andrew
Jackson as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to England 1829-1831; appointed
Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Jackson 1831-1833; appointed Secretary of
State by President Jackson 1833-1834; moved to Baltimore, Md.; president of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Co. 1837-1847; again Minister to England 1845-1846; delegate to the Maryland
constitutional convention in 1850; died in Baltimore, Md., October 7, 1857; interment in Greenmount
Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Munroe, John A. Louis McLane: Federalist and Jacksonian. New Brunswick, N.J.:
Rutgers University Press, 1973.
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