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| | JAMES HENRY LANE - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES HENRY LANE |
 | | He was the son of Amos Lane (1778-1849), a political leader in Indiana, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1816-1818 (speaker in 1817-1818), ill 1821 1822 and in 1839-1840, and from 1833 to 1837 a Democratic representative in Congress. |
 | | Lane was second in command of the forces in Lawrence during the Wakarusa War ; and in the spring of 1856 was elected a United States senator under the Topeka Constitution, the validity of which, however, and therefore the validity of his election, Congress refused to recognize. |
 | | In May 1856, with George Washington Deitzler (1826-1884), Dr Charles Robinson, and other Free State leaders, he was indicted for treason; but he escaped from Kansas, made a tour of the northern cities, and by his fiery oratory aroused great enthusiasm in behalf of the Free State movement in Kansas. |
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