After The Civil War
In 1865 Kane entered the tobacco manufacturing business at Danville, Va. Returning to Baltimore he was appointed to the Jones Falls Commission and was elected sheriff by the Democratic party in 1873.
On October 27, 1877, Kane was elected Mayor having won the Democratic nomination over Ferdinand C. Latrobe.
Mayor Kane was mayor of Baltimore City but a short time (his two-year term would have ended November 3, 1879). Ordinances receiving his approval were not numerous. One appropriated money for repairs to the Old City Hall on Holliday near Saratoga street, and transferred this building to the Commissioners of Public Schools to be used for school purposes. Authority to condemn and open Wolfe Street from Monument to North Avenue and Patterson Park Avenue from Oliver Street to North Avenue was granted. A resolution to appoint a committee to urge upon Congress the necessity of constructing a new post-office was approved by Mayor Kane and an ordinance to accept Homewood Park (a part of the present site of Johns Hopkins University) was signed April 8, 1878; this ordinance however was not carried into effect at that time.
Colonel Kane died, while Mayor, June 23, 1878. Ferdinand C. Latrobe was elected to serve the unexpired term.
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