Lane Evans
Lane Allen Evans (born August 4, 1951) is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007, representing the 17th District of Illinois. Evans announced that he would not seek reelection in November 2006 and retired at the end of the 109th Congress due to the increasingly debilitating effects of Parkinson's Disease.
He was one of the 31 who voted in the House to not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the United States presidential election, 2004.
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