Mclane, Louis
soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born May 28,1786, in Smyrna, Del. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1817 to 1827; and a senator in congress from 1827 to 1829. In 1829 he was appointed minister to England; and in 1831 received the appointment of secretary of the treasury. In 1833 he was secretary of state. In 1837 he was chosen president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company, and, removing to Maryland, discharged the duties of that office until 1847. He died Oct. 7, 1857, in Baltimore, Md. land in the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; declined a renomination; and in 1883 was elected governor of Maryland. In 1885 he was appointed United States minister to France.