Lane Evans
| Lane Evans | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 17th district |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | George M. O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Phil Hare |
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Lane Allen Evans August 4, 1951 Rock Island, Illinois |
| Died | November 5, 2014 (aged 63) East Moline, Illinois |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | Rock Island, Illinois |
| Alma mater | Augustana College, Georgetown University |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Lane Allen Evans (August 4, 1951 – November 5, 2014) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007, representing the 17th District of Illinois. Evans announced that he would not seek reelection in November 2006 and retired at the end of the 109th Congress, due to the increasingly debilitating effects of Parkinson's disease.
Evans was born in 1951 in Rock Island, Illinois, and attended Alleman High School and Augustana College there. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, stationed in Okinawa. After leaving the Marines in 1971, Evans enrolled at Augustana College in Rock Island, graduating in 1974. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University in 1977 and he started his legal career as an attorney with the Quad Cities Legal Clinic [Mid America Law Offices, Ltd.] in Moline.
In 1982, Evans ran for and won the Democratic nomination for Illinois' 17th congressional district, which included most of Illinois' share of the Quad Cities area. It had been renumbered from the 19th District since Illinois lost two districts after the 1980 census. The district had been in Republican hands for all but two years since 1939. However, the brand of Republicanism that prevailed in the district had traditionally been a moderate one. Evans got a significant boost when 16-year incumbent Tom Railsback was defeated for renomination by the more conservative Republican, State Senator Kenneth McMillan. Taking advantage of hardships from that year's recession, Evans won by around 5 percentage points, and handily defeated McMillan in a 1984 rematch despite Ronald Reagan's gigantic landslide victory that year.
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