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Lithograph of James Henry Lane by Middleton, Strobridge & Company. James Henry Lane (1814-1866) was a controversial figure in Kansas Territory. He moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1855, and quickly became an important Free State Party leader. He served as president of the Topeka and Leavenworth constitutional conventions and was elected one of the state's first U.S. senators. During the Civil War Lane raised the "Frontier Guard," recruited "Lane's Brigade," and formed the First Kansas Colored Volunteers. He committed suicide in 1866.
Creator: Middleton, Strobridge & Company
Date: between 1860 and 1865
Item Number: 209866
Call Number: 1983.4890.1
KSHS Identifier: 1983.4890.1
Collections - Museum
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Congress - Senate - Lane, James Henry
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Commercial Decorative Art - Print - Planographic
People - Notable Kansans - Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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