Background
LAKIN, James Sansome was born on March 1, 1864 in Moundsville, West Virginia, United States. Son of Revolution Calvin H. and Catherine (Finney) Lakin.
LAKIN, James Sansome was born on March 1, 1864 in Moundsville, West Virginia, United States. Son of Revolution Calvin H. and Catherine (Finney) Lakin.
Fairmont State Normal School, Fairmont, West Virginia. Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Elected member, Republican Executive Committee Preston Company, 1890-1909. Appointed member, Board of Directors West Virginia Asylum. Nominated Republican candidate for Congress Second Congressional District of West Virginia, 1905.
Appointed member, State Board of Control, 1909, elected by Board, President, 1909-1917, 1919-1929. Chairman, Republican State Executive Committee, 1912. Appointed Chairman, Public Service Commission, 1913.
Appointed State Chairman, Committee on Proposed Construction, World War. Four Minute Man, World War. Appointed member, W. Virginia Mental Hygiene Commission, 1920.
Elected one of Virginia Big lour to Republican National Convention, 1920. Appointed member, Appalachian Forest Research Council, 1925. Appointed member, State Crippled Children's Council, 1927.
Member. Division IX Public Officials, Administration, National Conference, Social Work, since 1917. Color Sergeant 2 British American Tobacco, Maryland National Guard 1882-1886. First Lieutenant Company M, First West Virginia Re^route, 1899-1908.
The life with Christ has nothing to do with being in a "church" atmosphere for all eternity. God’s salvation involves far more. He is planning to make his children productive, creative, useful, and supremely happy, within an environment of spiritual perfection, health, peace, and love.
God seeks to transform relationship with and between people. If politics is about how we choose to live together and to treat one another, there is surely a place for discerning the activity of God in politics.
The erroneous notion that one gender must strive against another cannot be accepted.
Member firm Offutt & Lakin, timber, 1889-1909. Member West Virginia “Big Four,” Republican National Convention, Chicago, 1920. Member West Virginia Mental Hygiene Commission.
Member Appalachian Forest Research Council, State Crippled Children’s Council. Served as First lieutenant Company M, 1st West Virginia Regiment, 1899-1908.
Married Lura Olivia Lakin, November 14, 1889. Children: James Offutt, Marion Elizabeth (Mistress John V. Ray), Florence Katherine (Mistress Thomas A. Deveny, Junior.