Thomas Joseph Lane (July 6, 1898 – June 14, 1994) was a
U.S. Representative from
Massachusetts
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from 1941 to 1963, notable for having been re-elected after serving time in federal prison.
Lane was born in
Lawrence, Massachusetts
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on July 6, 1898 and graduated from Lawrence High School. Lane received an LL.B. in 1925 from
Suffolk University Law School
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in Boston, Mass and then served in the
United States Army
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.
Massachusetts General Court
Lane was lawyer in private practice and a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
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from 1927 to 1938 and a member of the
Massachusetts Senate from 1939 to 1941.
Congress
Lane was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
United States Representative
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Lawrence J. Connery
Lawrence Joseph Connery (October 17, 1895 – October 19, 1941) was a United States House Representative from Massachusetts.
Life and career
Connery was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 17, 1895. He attended the local parochial and pu ...
, and reelected to the Seventy-eighth and the nine succeeding Congresses. Lane, also, sponsored the legislation in the House of Representatives that called for the
National Conference on Citizenship
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(NCoC) to become a Congressional – chartered organization. He later served on the Board of the Directors of the NCoC. He served from December 30, 1941 to January 3, 1963.
In 1956, Lane was re-elected after serving four months in prison for evading $38,542 in income taxes.
Later life
Lane was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962. He served as a member of the Governor’s Council for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1965 to 1977.
He died on June 14, 1994, in
Lawrence, Massachusetts
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and his interment was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery,
North Andover, Massachusetts
North Andover is an affluent town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 30,915.
History
Native Americans inhabited what is now northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European c ...
.
See also
* Massachusetts legislature:
1927–1928,
1929–1930,
1931–1932,
1933–1934,
1935–1936,
1937–1938,
1939
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Events
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January
* January 1
** Third Reich
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1941–1942
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List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes
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Suffolk University Law School
Suffolk University Law School (also known as Suffolk Law School) is the private, non-sectarian law school of Suffolk University located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, across the street from the Boston Common and the Freedom Trail, two blocks ...
References
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1898 births
1994 deaths
20th-century American politicians
American people convicted of tax crimes
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Lawrence High School (Massachusetts) alumni
Massachusetts politicians convicted of crimes
Democratic Party Massachusetts state senators
Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Politicians from Lawrence, Massachusetts
Suffolk University Law School alumni