biography
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Lane, William Preston, Jr
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| lived:
| (1892–1967)
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| biography:
| US governor, born in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA. A lawyer and World War 1 veteran, he purchased newspapers in Hagerstown in 1922. A crusading Maryland attorney general (1930–4), he prosecuted a white lynch mob in 1933. As governor (Democrat, 1947–51), he outlawed Communist Party gatherings, and later chaired the Herald Mail Publishing Co. |
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