John McLane
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John McLane (27 February 1852 - 13 April 1911) was Governor of the U.S. state of New Hampshire from 1905 to 1907.
He was born in Lennoxtown, in Scotland, the son of Alexander McLane and his wife Mary, née Hay, and was brought to America with his family in 1853, when he was one year old. They settled in Manchester, and removed to Milford in 1869. On completion of his schooling, he became a cabinetmaker's apprentice, and opened his own shop in 1876. The business's success (it was for a time the largest manufacture of post-office furniture in North America) secured other business opportunities for him: he became a director of the Milford Granite Company, the Souheagan National Bank and the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company.
On 10 March 1880 he married Ellen Luetta Tuck (1855-1927). They had four children, Clinton Averill McLane (1881), Hazel Ellen McLane (1885), John Roy McLane (1886), and Charles Malcolm McLane (1910).
McLane was elected, as a Republican, to the state legislature in 1885, and to the state senate in 1891, representing the 16th District 1891-92 and the 15th District 1893-94. He was president of the senate during his two terms. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from New Hampshire in 1900, and was elected governor in 1904, and served from 1905-1907.
As governor, McLane was intrumental in securing funding for highway improvement, and welcomed delegates to the Russo-Japanese War Peace Conference held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during his term in office.
He died in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina and was interred at Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Hampshire.