Henry Smith Lane (24 February 1811 – 19 June 1881) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-IN 7) from 3 August 1840 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Tilghman A. Howard and preceding Joseph A. Wright), Governor of Indiana from 14 to 16 January 1861 (succeeding Abram A. Hammond and preceding Oliver P. Morton), and a US Senator from 4 March 1861 to 3 March 1867 (succeeding Graham N. Fitch and preceding Morton).
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Henry Smith Lane was born in Bath County, Kentucky in 1811, and he became a lawyer in 1832. He moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1835, and he took many criminal cases. He became a Whig member of the State Senate in 1837 and went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1840 to 1843. He commanded a US Army regiment during the Mexican-American War, and, after the war, he failed to win re-election to the House. In 1861, he was elected Governor with Oliver P. Morton as his running mate, but he resigned to accept a seat in the US Senate as a part of a deal with Morton, who went on to become the new Governor. From 1869 to 1871, he was a special Indian commissioner, and he died in 1881.