The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.

In 1981 a stage musical based on the strip had a short run at London's Aldwych Theatre, with songs by Alan Price and Trevor Peacock, starring Tom Courtenay as Andy and Val McLane as Florrie.

Having failed to become a part the initial cabinet, as he had hoped, McLane reluctantly accepted appointment as Minister to England, arranged by his friend Martin Van Buren, now U. S. Secretary of State.

Two years later, McLane finally received the appointment he had so longed for.

Acclaimed for its Hamiltonian creativity, McLane had taken the initiative on the administration ’ s agenda, and was acting very much in the role of a Prime Minister.

However, when McLane refused to remove the governments deposits from the Second Bank of the United States, Jackson had to replace him with someone that would, and offered McLane the prestigious U. S. Secretary of State instead.

Although he had some inherited wealth from his father, with 13 children McLane always needed to provide additional earned income in his own right.

McLane was President for one year, implemented many improvements, and produced one of the few profitable years the company had.

The son of a Scots-Irish adventurer and politician from Delaware, McLane had married into the Eastern shore gentry of Maryland and ever longed for the idyllic plantation life seemingly promised.

They had four children, Clinton Averill McLane ( 1881 ), Hazel Ellen McLane ( 1885 ), John Roy McLane ( 1886 ), and Charles Malcolm McLane ( 1910 ).

During the rest of the War, McLane refocused his attention back towards his law practice, as he had been appointed counsel for the Western Pacific Railroad in the winter of 1863.

McLane moved to France with his wife, whom he had met there many years previously, to carry out his ambassadorial duties.

In addition to his instruction of East Coast artists like Charles Demuth, Silas Dustin, Marsden Hartley, M. Jean McLane, Georgia O ' Keeffe, John Marin, George Pearse Ennis, Leopold Seyffert and Edward Charles Volkert, he had an important role in influencing California art at the turn of the century, especially in interactions with Arthur Frank Mathews, Xavier Martinez and Percy Gray.

McLane made sure the new junior college had its own faculty and its own student body separate from the high school “ to impress upon students and the public at large the fact that serious work of distinctive college standards is being undertaken ,” he noted.

In more than 20 years in the theatre, he has had the pleasure of appearing onstage or working with several Broadway and Hollywood luminaries, including Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Tina Fey, Savion Glover, Christina Hendricks, Jason George, Zachary Knighton, Florence Lacey, Judy McLane, Betty Ann Grove and Helen Carey.

They had six children — Louis McLane, William Johnson, Sarah E., Margaret Madeline, Jane Claudia, and Julia A.

One of the volunteers was an archaeologist named Peter McLane who excavated much more of the Neville site than the NHAS had planned on.

After the excavation, McLane had planned on writing the report for all of the artifacts and data recovered.

McLane was first elected to the U. S. House of Representatives by defeating Thomas Clayton for the Federalist nomination, as Clayton was politically damaged by having voted for a Congressional pay raise in the previous session.

McLane was remembered fondly from his previous service, and renewed his old friendships.

In 1845, McLane was elected as a representative of Baltimore City to the Maryland House of Delegates after successfully campaigning for President James K. Polk a year previous.

These friendships were based more on personality than policy agreement, and were so important that McLane was one of Crawford ’ s strongest proponents in the Presidential election of 1824.

However, Collins was having difficulty finding a site for a stadium himself, so Major League owners stepped in and forced McLane to give Houston another chance to grant his stadium wish.

In November 2010, Drayton McLane announced that the Astros were being put up for sale.

Due to the efforts of Governor McLane, the State of New Hampshire along with Portsmouth and its citizens became the unlikely host for the first international treaty to be signed in the United States.

" McLane asserts the name " Ragged Arse Island " might have been an attempt to render " Racketash ," Abnaki for " island rocks.

Additionally, DynCorp formed a joint venture with Oshkosh Defense, Force Protection Industries, and McLane Advanced Technologies to pursue a $ 3 billion five-year contract issued by the Army for support and maintenance of mine resistant ambush protected vehicles.

The secretary of the treasury, Louis McLane, professed moderate support for the Bank.

In 1832, Secretary of the Treasury Louis McLane issued written orders for revenue cutters to conduct winter cruises to assist mariners in need, and Congress made the practice an official part of regulations in 1837.

Named for the King of France, McLane was born in Smyrna, Delaware, son of Allen and Rebecca Wells McLane.

Allen McLane was a veteran of the American Revolution and long time tax collector for the port of Wilmington.

Louis McLane attended private schools and served as a midshipman on the USS Philadelphia for one year before he was 18.

During the War of 1812 McLane joined the Wilmington Artillery Company, formed for the purpose of defending Wilmington.

The appointment was a great embarrassment to Jackson, and many blamed McLane for urging it.

While all this was going on, McLane negotiated what seemed to be a satisfactory tariff bill, but when South Carolina continued to object and triggered the Nullification Crisis, McLane prepared the important Force Bill of 1833 to provide for the tariff ’ s enforcement.

McLane was furious with his old mentor for this intervention, and resigned his position, recognizing his apparent lack of authority in a direct area of responsibility.

In spite of his political setbacks McLane never lost his ambition for high political office.

While he dreamed of something much greater, McLane took a leave of absence from the railroad in 1845 and 1846 to return to England as Minister Plenipotentiary, primarily for the purpose of coordinating negotiations over the Oregon boundary.

A. Panitz, and S. Brooks McLane.

Shortly thereafter, McMullen ( who also owned the NHL's New Jersey Devils ) sold the team to Texas businessman Drayton McLane in 1993, who committed to keeping the team in Houston.

By the mid-1990s, McLane ( like McMullen before him ) wanted his team out of the Astrodome and was asking the city to build the Astros a new stadium.

McLane stated that because the Astros was one of the few franchises in Major League Baseball with only one family as the owners, he was trying to move forward with estate planning.

McLane is 75 years of age as of November 2011.

* 1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U. S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.

* June 10 – United States expedition to Korea: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 members of the United States Marine Corps in a naval attack on the Han River forts on Ganghwa Island in Korea.

* May 27 – Taiping Rebellion: United States diplomatic minister Robert McLane arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the American warship USS Susquehanna.

Benjamin McLane Spock ( May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998 ) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time.

Benjamin McLane Spock was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut ; his parents were Benjamin Ives Spock, a Yale graduate and long-time general counsel of the New Haven Railroad, and Mildred Louise Stoughton Spock.

McLane, The Death of a Queen: Spencer's Dido as Elizabeth, 1954.

The international jurist John Bassett Moore was born in Smyrna, as were politicians Louis McLane and James Williams.

By 1914, the community needed a large central school to house all of the area's students, so the Brandon Grade School ( now McLane Middle School ) was built on Knights Avenue to house grades 1 through 12.

McKean Township is served by the General McLane School District.

Temple is home to many regional distribution centers andis headquarters to two large, multi-national companies, Wilsonart International and McLane Company, as well as the internationally known McLane Group.