1406 Biographical Directory Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1891- Ill., and again engaged in banking; died in Evanston, Ill., March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in October 2, 1916; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery, Char- 1896; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in bank- lotte, Mich. ing in Sardis; retired from active business pursuits in 1912; died in Sardis, Miss., July 6, 1913; interment in Rosehill LACEY, John Fletcher, a Representative from Iowa; Cemetery. born in New Martinsville, Va. (now West Virginia), May 30, 1841; moved to Iowa in 1855 with his parents, who KYLE, Thomas Barton, a Representative from Ohio; settled in Oskaloosa; attended the common schools and pur- born in Troy, Miami County, Ohio, March 10, 1856; attended sued classical studies; engaged in agricultural pursuits; the public schools and Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; learned the trades of bricklaying and plastering; enlisted studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1884 and com- in Company H, Third Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, menced practice in Troy; elected prosecuting attorney of in May 1861 and afterward served in Company D, Thirty- Miami County in 1890; president of the board of education third Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, as sergeant major, of Troy; mayor of Troy; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- and as lieutenant in Company C of that regiment; promoted seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March to assistant adjutant general; studied law; was admitted 3, 1905); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the bar in 1865 and commenced practice in Oskaloosa, in 1904; resumed the practice of his profession in Troy, Iowa; member of the Iowa house of representatives in 1870; Ohio, where he died on August 13, 1915; interment in River- elected city councilman in 1880; served one term as city side Cemetery. solicitor; temporary chairman of the Republican State con- vention in 1898; served on the city council 1880-1883; elect- KYROS, Peter Nicholas, a Representative from Maine; ed as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, born in Portland, Maine, July 11, 1925; attended the public 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; schools in Portland, Maine, and the Massachusetts Institute elected to the Fifty-third and to the six succeeding Con- of Technology; graduated from the United States Naval gresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1907); chairman, Com- Academy in 1947; graduated from Harvard Law School, in mittee on Public Lands (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-ninth 1957; served in the United States Navy, 1944-1953, dis- Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection; charged with rank of lieutenant; admitted to the bar in resumed the practice of law; died in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Sep- 1957 and commenced the practice of law in Portland, Maine; tember 29, 1913; interment in Forest Cemetery. served from 1957 to 1959 as counsel to the Maine Public Bibliography: Gallagher, Mary Annette. ‘‘John F. Lacey: A Study in Utilities Commission, Augusta, Maine; elected as a Demo- Organizational Politics.’’ Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona, 1970. crat to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate LACOCK, Abner, a Representative and a Senator from for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; served Pennsylvania; born near Alexandria, Va., July 9, 1770; in the United States Department of State, 1980-1982; re- moved with his parents to Washington County, Pa., as a sumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; is a resident youth; moved to Beaver (then in Allegheny County), Pa., of Portland, Maine. in 1796; justice of the peace in 1796; innkeeper; member, State legislature 1801-1803; associate judge of the Beaver County Court 1803-1804; member, State legislature 1804- 1808; member of the Pennsylvania Militia and served as L brigadier general in 1807; member, State senate 1808-1810; LA BRANCHE, Alce´e Louis, a Representative from Lou- elected as a Democratic Republican to the Twelfth Congress isiana; born near New Orleans, La., in 1806; attended the and served from March 4, 1811, until March 3, 1813; re- Universite´ de Sorreze, France; engaged in planting; member elected to the Thirteenth Congress but resigned before it of the State house of representatives 1831-1833 and was commenced, having been elected Senator; elected to the chosen speaker of the house January 7, 1833; Charge d’Af- United States Senate as a Democratic Republican and faires to Texas from 1837 to 1840, when he resigned; elected served from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1819; chairman, as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, Committee on Pensions (Fifteenth Congress); appointed a 1843-March 3, 1845); naval officer at the port of New Orle- State commissioner to survey routes for canals and railways ans in 1847; died at Hot Springs, Va., August 17, 1861; in Pennsylvania in 1825; member, State legislature 1832- interment in Red Church Cemetery, St. Charles Parish; re- 1835; appointed to survey and construct the Pennsylvania interment in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La. & Ohio Canal in 1836,; died near Freedom, Pa., April 12, 1837; interment in Lacock Cemetery, Rochester, Pa. LACEY, Edward Samuel, a Representative from Michi- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- gan; born in Chili, Monroe County, N.Y., November 26, 1835; ography; Houtz, Harry. ‘‘Abner Lacock, Beaver County’s Exponent of the moved with his parents to Branch County, Mich., in October American System.’’ Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 22 (Sep- 1842, and to Eaton County in March 1843; attended the tember 1939): 177-87; Swank, James M. ‘‘General Abner Lacock.’’ Pennsyl- vania Magazine of History and Biography 4 (1880): 202-08. public schools and Olivet College; engaged in various busi- ness pursuits and in banking; a resident of Kalamazoo, LADD, Edwin Freemont, a Senator from North Dakota; Mich., 1853-1857; moved to Charlotte, Mich., and was reg- born in Starks, Somerset County, Maine, December 13, ister of deeds for Eaton County 1860-1864; mayor of Char- 1859; attended the public schools and Somerset Academy, lotte in 1871; trustee of the Michigan Asylum for the Insane Athens, Maine, and graduated from the University of Maine 1874-1880; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Orono in 1884; chemist of the New York State Experi- in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and ment Station, Geneva, N.Y., 1884-1890; dean of the school Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); de- of chemistry and pharmacy and professor of chemistry at clined to be a candidate for reelection in 1884; chairman the North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, N.Dak.; chief of the Republican State central committee 1882-1884; com- chemist of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Sta- missioned by President Harrison to be Comptroller of the tion 1890-1916; editor of the North Dakota Farmer at Lisbon Currency April 17, 1889; reappointed December 16, 1889, 1899-1904; administrator of the State pure-food laws, for and served until 1892, when he resigned; moved to Chicago, which he actively crusaded 1902-1921; president of the Biographies 1407 North Dakota Agricultural College 1916-1921; elected as a LAFFERTY, Abraham Walter, a Representative from Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 and served Oregon; born near Farber, Audrain County, Mo., June 10, from March 4, 1921, until his death in Johns Hopkins Hos- 1875; attended the public schools; studied law at the Univer- pital, Baltimore, Md., June 22, 1925; chairman, Committee sity of Missouri at Columbia in 1895 and 1896; was admitted on Public Roads and Surveys (Sixty-eighth Congress); inter- to the bar the latter year and commenced practice in Mont- ment in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C. gomery City, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Montgomery Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- County, Mo., 1902-1904; appointed special agent of the ography; Melby, Alfred. ‘‘A Chemist in the Senate: Edwin Fremont Ladd, United States General Land Office and moved to Portland, 1921-1925.’’ Master’s thesis, University of North Dakota, 1967; U.S. Con- Oreg., March 1, 1905; resigned October 1, 1906, and engaged gress. Senate. Memorial Addresses. 69th Cong., 2d sess., 1925-1926. Wash- in the practice of law in Portland; elected as a Republican ington: Government Printing Office, 1927. to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, LADD, George Washington, a Representative from 1911-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Maine; born in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, Sep- to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law tember 28, 1818; attended the common schools and Kents in Portland; during the First World War served as major Hill Seminary; engaged in the drug business in Bangor, at the San Francisco training camp; moved to New York Maine; later engaged in the lumber, commission, and whole- City in 1919 and continued the practice of law there until sale grocery business in Bangor; was also interested in rail- 1933, when he moved to Riverdale, Md.; returned to Port- road development; elected as a Greenback candidate to the land, Oreg., and was an unsuccessful candidate for nomina- Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879- tion to the United States House of Representatives as an March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Independent in 1950 and as a Republican in 1952, 1954, the Post Office Department (Forty-sixth Congress); unsuc- and 1956; was a resident of Portland, Oreg., until his death cessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth January 15, 1964; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Mid- Congress; died in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, Janu- dletown, Mo. ary 30, 1892; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.