Daniel F. Lafean | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's at-large district |
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In office March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1917 |
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Preceded by | Anderson H. Walters |
Succeeded by | Joseph McLaughlin |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th district |
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In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1913 |
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Preceded by | Alvin Evans |
Succeeded by | Andrew R. Brodbeck |
Personal details | |
Born |
York, Pennsylvania |
February 7, 1861
Died | April 18, 1922 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
(aged 61)
Political party | Republican |
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.