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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Indiana / KansasJames Henry LANE
(1814-1866)
Senate Years of Service:
1861-1866Party: RepublicanLANE, James Henry, (son of
Amos Lane), a Representative from Indiana and a Senator from
Kansas; born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., June 22, 1814; attended the
public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1840 and
commenced practice in Lawrenceburg; member of the city council;
served in the Mexican War; lieutenant governor of Indiana
1849-1853; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress
(March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); moved to the Territory of Kansas in
1855; member of the Topeka constitutional convention 1855; elected
to the United States Senate by the legislature that convened under
the Topeka constitution in 1856, but the election was not
recognized by the United States Senate; president of the
Leavenworth constitutional convention in 1857; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1861; reelected in 1865
and served from April 4, 1861, until his death; chairman, Committee
on Agriculture (Thirty-eighth Congress); appointed by President
Abraham Lincoln brigadier general of volunteers and saw battle
during the Civil War; deranged and charged with financial
irregularities, Lane shot himself on July 1, 1866, but lingered ten
days, dying on July 11, near Fort Leavenworth, Kans.; interment in
the City Cemetery, Lawrence, Kans.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Dean, Virgil W. John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers
and Shakers in Kansas History. Lawrence: University of Kansas
Press, 2008; Collins, Robert. Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman,
Kansan. Gretna: Pelican, 2007; Bailes, Kendall. Rider on the
Wind: Jim Lane and Kansas. Shawnee Mission, Kans.: Wagon Wheel
Press, 1962.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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