Louis McLane (1786-1857)
U.S. Senator, Ambassador to the U.K., Secretary of State & Railroad President, etc.
He was born in Smyrna, Delaware, and served as a Midshipman in the U.S. Navy (1798-1801). He attended Newark Academy (now the University of Delaware) and was admitted to the Bar in 1807, practicing in Wilmington. He served as a Lieutenant with the Wilmington Artillery Company during the War of 1812. He was elected U.S. Congressman from Delaware (1817-27); Chair of the House Ways & Means Committee (1822-27); U.S. Senator from Delaware (1827-29); U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1829-31); U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in President Jackson's Cabinet (1831-33); and U.S. Secretary of State (1833-34). He became President of the Morris Canal & Banking Company in New York City, and then moved to Baltimore where he was President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1837-47), while also serving again as U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1845-46). He was Delegate to the Maryland Constitutional Convention in 1850 and died in Baltimore in 1857. In 1812, he married Kitty, daughter of Robert Milligan of Milligan's Hill, and they had 12-children. They lived between Baltimore and the estate they named "Bohemia" (see images), previously the seat of the Milligans in Cecil County.
Parents (2)
Children (12)
Robert Milligan McLane
U.S. Congressman & Governor of Maryland; U.S. Minister to Mexico, France & China
1815-1898
Allan McLane
of 1500 Vermont Ave., Washington D.C., President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
1823-1891
Capt. George Baldwin McLane
of the U.S. Mounted Rifles; killed by Navajo Indians in New Mexico
1826-1860
