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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonJoseph LANE
(1801-1881)
Senate Years of Service:
1859-1861Party: DemocratLANE, Joseph, (father of
La Fayette Lane and grandfather of Harry Lane), a Delegate and a
Senator from Oregon; born in Buncombe County, N.C., December 14,
1801; moved with his parents to Henderson, Ky., in 1810; attended
the common schools; worked in a general store; moved to Vanderburg
County, Ind., in 1821 and farmed; elected to the first of several
terms in the State house of representatives in 1822; member, State
senate 1844-1846; during the Mexican War, led a brigade in several
battles; brevetted major general in 1847; appointed by President
James Polk to be governor of the Territory of Oregon 1849-1850,
when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1852; elected as a Delegate from the
Territory to the Thirty-second and to the three succeeding
Congresses and served from June 21, 1851, until February 14, 1859,
when the Territory became a State; upon the admission of Oregon as
a State into the Union in 1859 was elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate and served from February 14, 1859, to March 3,
1861; did not seek reelection in 1860, having become a candidate
for Vice President; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills
(Thirty-sixth Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims
(Thirty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Vice President
of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 1860; died in
Roseburg, Oreg., April 19, 1881; interment in the Masonic
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Hendrickson, James. Joe
Lane of Oregon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967; Kelley,
Margaret Jean. “The Career of Joseph Lane, Frontier
Politician.” Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University of
America, 1941.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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