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About James Henry Lane
Brigadier-General James Henry Lane was an American politician and military officer who was a leader of the Jayhawkers in the Bleeding Kansas period that immediately preceded the American Civil War. During the war itself, Lane served in the United States Senate and as a general officer in the Union Army. Although reelected as a senator in 1865, Lane died by suicide the next year.
Everything about James Henry Lane →- Occupation
- politician, military officer, lawyer, Brigadegeneral
- Position held
- United States representative, member of the Indiana House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 22, 1814
- Died
- July 11, 1866