Thomas Joseph Lane (July 6, 1898 – June 14, 1994) was a

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from

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from 1941 to 1963, notable for having been re-elected after serving time in

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. Lane was born in

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on July 6, 1898 and graduated from Lawrence High School. Lane received an LL.B. in 1925 from

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in Boston, Mass and then served in the

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Massachusetts General Court

Lane was lawyer in private practice and a member of the

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from 1927 to 1938 and a member of the

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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

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Lawrence J. Connery, 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

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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

and his interment was at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery,

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Massachusetts General Court

Congress

Later life

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