The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal and Political by Anne Wintermute Lane (Editor), Louise Herrick Wall (Editor) - 2005-05-04

Houghton Mifflin. GOOD-/No Jacket. 1922. Loose Cover. Hard Cover. reading copy (A169) .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; xxvi, 473 pages; Contents clean and secure in original blue cloth binding. Inscribed and signed on ffep from Anne W. Lane to Mary Jennings. Includes letters and correspondence of Franklin K. Lane, who served as Interstate Commerce Commissioner to both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, and Secretary of the Interior under President Wilson. Franklin Knight Lane (1864 – 1921) was an American progressive politician from California. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920. He also served as a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 1902, losing a narrow race in what was then a heavily Republican state. Lane's record on conservation was mixed: he supported the controversial Hetch Hetchy Reservoir project in Yosemite National Park, which flooded a valley esteemed by many… Read More

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