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Born: December 14, 1801
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Died: April 19, 1881
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Complete HarpWeek Biography:
Joseph Lane was a senator from Oregon and the 1860 vice-presidential nominee of
the National (or Southern) Democratic party. He was born in Buncombe County,
North Carolina, to Elizabeth Street Lane and John Lane. In 1810 the Lane family
moved to Henderson, Kentucky, where young Joseph was educated in the common
schools and worked in a general store. In 1821 he moved to Indiana to farm, and
was elected the next year to the lower house of the state legislature. He was
reelected to several terms before winning a seat in the upper house in 1844. He
served a brigade commander in the Mexican War, and was brevetted a major general
in 1847. President James Polk appointed him as territorial governor of Oregon
(1849-1850). He then won the first of four elections as the territory's
congressional delegate (1851-1859), and was elected in 1859 as a Democrat to be
one the new state's first U.S. senators. When the Democratic party split over
the issue of slavery expansion in 1860, the National (or Southern) Democrats
nominated Lane as the vice-presidential running mate of presidential nominee
John C. Breckinridge. After their defeat, Lane retired from public life. He died
in Oregon in 1881. |
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