Background
Daniel Franklin Lafean was born in York, Pennsylvania.
United States representative politician
Daniel Franklin Lafean was born in York, Pennsylvania.
He was engaged in candy manufacturing and in banking in New York He served as a director of the Gettysburg College and trustee of the Gettysburg Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was a Freemason and served as Worshipful Master of his lodge, Zeredatha Lodge Number.
451, York, in 1895.
Lafean was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912. He was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1916.
He was appointed commissioner of banking of the State of Pennsylvania in 1917.
He again engaged in manufacturing pursuits and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania.