Amos Lane

Amos Lane ( * March 1, 1778 in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York; † 2 September 1849 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Amos Lane attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began in 1808 to work in Lawrenceburg in this profession. In the meantime, he moved to Burlington, Kentucky. In 1814 he returned to Lawrenceburg. At the same time he began a political career. In the years 1816 and 1817 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Indiana.

Lane joined the movement to President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In the congressional elections of 1832 he was in the then newly created fourth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 4th, 1837 two legislative sessions. These were determined by the discussions on the policies of President Jackson. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act, which Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and banking policy of the President.

1836 Lane lost against George H. Dunn of the Whig party. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1839 he was again elected to the House of Representatives from Indiana, whose president he was then. He died on 2 September 1849 in Lawrenceburg. Amos Lane was the father of James Henry Lane (1814-1866), congressman for Indiana, U.S. Senator for Kansas and general of the Union during the Civil War was.