Patrick McLane was a Democratic

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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Biography

Patrick McLane was born in County Mayo, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States

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 in 1882 with his parents, who settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton, Pennsylvania

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. He worked in the coal

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 mines of Scranton for thirteen years. During the Spanish-American War

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 he served in the Eleventh Regiment of the United States Army

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, in 1898 and 1899. He became a locomotive

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 engineer. He was a member of the Scranton School Board from 1904 to 1911. He served as a delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1905, and as a member of the Democratic State committee in 1914.

McLane presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 Congress and served from March 4, 1919 to February 25, 1921, when he was succeeded by John Richard Farr

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, who successfully contested the election. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1922

United States House election, 1922

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 and in 1924

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He was employed as a locomotive engineer until his death, aged 71, in Scranton in 1946. Interred in Cathedral Cemetery.