[1] Lafayette attended public schools in Washington, DC, and Stamford, Connecticut, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Roseburg, Oregon.

In 1866, he was the a Democratic nominee for Oregon Secretary of State in 1866, but was defeated by incumbent Samuel E.

[1] In 1874, Lane was appointed as a code commissioner, where along with noted jurist Matthew Deady, he compiled Oregon's statutes into a systematic code, Deady and Lane's General Laws of Oregon.

La Dow was elected to the US House of Representatives, but died two months into his term.

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