HISTORY OF IOWA FROM ITS EARLIEST TIMES
TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY VOL IV
from Scott County
By Benjamin F. Gue; 1903.
Transcribed by Debbie Clough Gerischer
JOSEPH R. LANE:was born in Davenport, Iowa, on the 6th of May, 1858, and was the son of Hon. James T. Lane. He was educated at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, attended the Law Department of the State University and began to practice law in Davenport in 1880. In 1898 he was elected to Congress on the Republican ticket in the Second District, serving but oneterm, as he declined a reelection. He has long been one of the active Republican leaders in the Second Congressional district, but prefers the line of his profession to official positions. |
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