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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: United States Secretary of the Interior, Lucius Quintus Cincinatus Lamar II, Franklin Knight Lane, Carl Schurz, Ken Salazar, Zachariah Chandler, Stewart Udall, Rogers Morton, Harold L. Ickes, James G. Watt, Dirk Kempthorne, Stanley K. Hathaway, Wally Hickel, Jacob Dolson Cox, Douglas McKay, Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albert B. Fall, Cecil D. Andrus, Gale Norton, Samuel J. Kirkwood, Bruce Babbitt, Donald P. Hodel, Thomas Ewing, Caleb Blood Smith, Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Jacob Thompson, David R. Francis, James Rudolph Garfield, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, Robert McClelland, M. Hoke Smith, William P. Clark, Jr., Columbus Delano, William Freeman Vilas, John Barton Payne, Henry M. Teller, James Harlan, Hubert Work, Orville Hickman Browning, Thomas S. Kleppe, Fred Andrew Seaton, Julius Albert Krug, Richard Achilles Ballinger, Cornelius Newton Bliss, John Palmer Usher, Ethan A. Hitchcock, Roy Owen West, Oscar L. Chapman, John Willock Noble, Walter L. Fisher. Excerpt: Franklin Knight Lane (July 15, 1864 - May 18, 1921) was an American Democratic politician from California who 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 was born July 15, 1864, near Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in what was then a British colony but is now part of Canada, and in 1871, his family moved to California. After attending the University of California while working part time as a reporter, Lane became a New York correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, and later became editor and part owner of a newspaper. Elected City Attorney of San Francisco in 1898, a post he held for five years, La...
