Person

James Henry Lane

United States Senator from Kansas

b. 1814 CE – d. 1866 CE World The Far West

James Henry Lane also known as Jim Lane (June 22, 1814 – July 11, 1866) is a partisan during the Bleeding Kansas period that immediately precedes the American Civil War.

During the war, Lane serves as a United States Senator and as a general who fights for the Union.

Although reelected as a Senator in 1865, Lane commits suicide the following year.