- Daniel F. Lafean
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Daniel Franklin Lafean (February 7, 1861 – April 18, 1922) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Daniel Franklin Lafean was born in York, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in candy manufacturing and in banking in York. He served as a director of the Gettysburg College and trustee of the Gettysburg Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Lafean was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1916. He was appointed commissioner of banking of the State of Pennsylvania in 1917. He again engaged in manufacturing pursuits and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania.
Sources
- Daniel F. Lafean at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
Preceded by
Alvin EvansMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district
1903 - 1913Succeeded by
Andrew R. BrodbeckPreceded by
Anderson H. WaltersMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 35th congressional district
1915 - 1917Succeeded by
Joseph McLaughlinCategories:- 1861 births
- 1922 deaths
- Gettysburg College
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- People from York, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania United States Representative stubs
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