afterward settled in
Herkimer County, New York, and became engaged extensively in the
manufacture of paper. In 1857 he was elected State Senator. In 1864 he
was elected a Representative to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was
re-elected in 1866.

HENRY S. LANE was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, February 24,
1811. After having obtained an academical education, he studied law,
and removed to Indiana, where he engaged in the practice of his
profession. In 1837 he was elected to the Indiana Legislature. In 1840
he was elected a Representative in Congress from Indiana. He served
under General Taylor in the Mexican War as Lieutenant-Colonel of
Volunteers. He was President of the first Republican National
Convention which met in Philadelphia, July 4, 1856. In 1861 he was
elected Governor of Indiana, but resigned the office two days after
his inauguration to accept the position of Senator in Congress, to
which he was elected for the term ending in 1867. He was succeeded by
Oliver P. Morton.--213, 381, 383, 499, 532.

JAMES H. LANE was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, June 22, 1814. He
served as a soldier through the Mexican War, and soon after his return
in 1849 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana. He was an active
Democratic politician, and as such was elected a Representative in
Congress from Indiana in 1853. Soon after the close of his
Congressional term, he went to Kansas, where he actively aided in the
work of erecting a Free-State Government. He was President of the
Topeka and the Leavenworth Constitutional Conventions, and was elected
by the people Major General of the Free-State Troops. On the admission
of Kansas into the Union, he was elected a Senator in Congress from
that State. Soon after the breaking out of the Rebellion, he was
appointed by President Lincoln a Brigadier General of Volunteers. He
was a member of the Baltimore Convention of 1864. In 1865 he was
re-elected by the Legislature of Kansas a Senator in Congress. On the
1st of July, 1866, while at Fort Leavenworth on leave of absence from
the Senate on account of ill-health, he committed suicide.--171, 201,
279, 284, 285, 457, 569.

GEORGE R. LATHAM was born in Prince William County, Virginia, March 9,
1832. He engaged in teaching school, and while in that employment
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. During the
Presidential Campaign of 1860, he edited a paper in Grafton, Virginia.
At the breaking out of the Rebellion, he enter