LANE, FRANKLIN KNIGHT

(18641921), Secretary of the Interior (1913-— 20); & Prince Edward Island, Canada, | He was educated in California, where he settled in his early youth, and admitted to the bar after meantime engaging in newspaper work, and prac- | city counsel from fe). Hnterpolitics, as a Democrat, he was Cor as a oman a governs of California, an e next year re of ns as piney See Py raf he enator. e@ became of national note a member of the Interstate Com= merce tos appottied Commi ion iti (g.v.), in 1005, to which and body ob which he became chairman in 1913. Upon President Wilson taking office in the latter year he entered his Cabinet = pe ebhertl a the ce and aul § tenure LOOK an active part in provid= ing Alaska with a government-built railroad by securing legislation authorizing its construction. He became vice= | president of the Pan-American Petrol- |eum and Transport Company of New | York after the close of the Wilson adMinistration. A mountain peak at named Mount after Ranier him—as National a tribute Park to was his ee