William Preston Lane, Jr. (1892-1967)
MSA SC 3520-1483
Governor of Maryland, 1947-1951
Photo of full portrait of William Preston Lane
by Raymond Perry Rodgers Neilson, 1950.
MSA SC 1545-1102
William Preston Lane (front
center, inside semi-circle) commands the 8th battalion of the Maryland State Guard during WWII.
(Click on image to zoom
in.) MSA SC 4082-1-475.
![]() William Preston Lane is sworn in as governor by Judge Ogle Warbury. January 3, 1947. MSA SC 4082-1-99A. | ![]() Dorothy Lane, William Preston Lane, Dorothy Byron Lane, and Jean Lane on their first day in Government House. January 3, 1947. MSA SC 4082-1-99B. | ![]() |
| ![]() William Preston Lane in his office after the restoration of the State House, 1948. MSA SC 4082-1-73. |
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![]() William Preston Lane and Dorothy Byron Lane (unseen) ride in President Truman's inaugural parade, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1949. MSA SC 4082-1-377. | ![]() Governor Lane with Veterans of Foreign Wars, March 4, 1949. Marion Edwin Warren Photograph Collection. MSA SC 1890-13728. | ![]() William Preston Lane talks on "Annapolis 1" at Annapolis Tercentenary, May 1949. MSA SC 4082-1-161. "Annapolis 1, Ancient Telephone Used For Half Century By Maryland Governors," The Evening Capital, April 27, 1937. |
![]() Carlisle Humelsine, William Preston Lane, Dorothy Byron Lane and Philip Perlman on the installation of Senator McGrath as Attorney General of the United States and Attorney General Clark as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court justice. Washington, D.C., August 1949. MSA SC 4082-1-149. |
| ![]() Senator Tydings, William Preston Lane, President Truman, Mayor D'Alesandro and Miss Maryland (Jean Crowe) at dedication of Friendship International Airport, Baltimore, June 24, 1950. MSA SC 4082-1-260. |
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| ![]() William Preston Lane and Theodore McKeldin at dedication of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, July 30, 1952. MSA SC 4082-1-301. |
| ![]() William Preston Lane and Dorothy Byron Lane take inaugural ride across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, July 30, 1952. MSA SC 4082-1-237. |
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![]() Front view of Lane home in Hagerstown, Maryland. April, 1946. MSA SC 4082-1-47. |
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