Herbert J. Drane
(1863-1947)

Died aged c. 84

Herbert J. Drane was born June 20, 1863 in Simpson County, Kentucky. He attended schools in Louisville and Franklin, Kentucky. He moved to Macon, Georgia in 1881 and to Lakeland—a city he co-founded—in 1883. In Lakeland, he entered the real estate and insurance business, railroad construction and citrus industry. He served as clerk and treasurer for the city and was elected mayor in 1890. He was editor of the newspaper Florida Cracker. He served in both branches of the State Legislature and was elected president of the Senate in 1915. He served as a United States Congressman from 1916 to 1933. From 1933 to 1937 he was a member of the Federal Power Commission in Washington. He returned to Lakeland where he resumed his real estate, insurance, property management and citrus interests until his death, August 11, 1947.

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