Daniel F. Lafean

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Daniel Lafean, Pennsylvania Congressman.

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. He was a Freemason and served as Worshipful Master of his lodge, Zeredatha Lodge No. 451, York, in 1895.

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.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district

1903–1913
Succeeded by
Andrew R. Brodbeck
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's at-large congressional district

1915–1917
Succeeded by
Joseph McLaughlin


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