LANE, JosEvil (1801-81). An American pioneer and soldier, born in Buncombe County, N. C. He removed to Kentucky in 1814, and two years later crossed the Ohio into Warrick County, Ind. Ito was elected to the Legislature in 1822 while still under age, and was conse quently obliged to wait some time before he could take his seat. From that time until the outbreak of the War he was a member of one branch or the other of the Indiana Legislature, but in 1846 he resigned from the State Senate to enlist, as a private. Soon afterwards he elected colonel of the Second Indiana Volunteers, and in 1846 was commissioned brigadier-general. He was wounded at the battle of Buena Vista, and at Iluamantla defeated General Santa Anna. for which service he received the brevet rank of major-general in the Regular Army. Ile was very successful against the guerrilla bands which in fested the country, and became known as the Marion of the Mexican War. At the close of the
war President Polk appointed him Governor of Oregon Territory, and when President. Taylor removed him two years later (1850), the people elected him delegate to Congress, an office which he held until Oregon's admission to the Union in 1859, when he was chosen United States Sena tor. During President Tierce's administration lie commanded the troops sent to suppress in uprising of the Indians. In 1852 the Indiana Democratic State Convention advocated his nomi nation for the Presidency, and in 1860 he ran for Vice-President on the ticket with John C. Breckenridge. Upon his defeat lie retired from public life to his ranch in Oregon. %Olere be lived in comparative poverty until his death.