Kansas Senator James Henry Lane had been a participant in the conflict over "Bleeding Kansas" and then when statehood was achieved served in the U.S. House of Representatives.  He entered the U.S. Senate in 1861 and served during the war simultaneously and controversially as a Union Army general. In the post-war Senate, he had been accused of being too receptive to President Johnson's policies and this, along with mental illness, led to him shooting himself in his carriage near Leavenworth ten days early.  He lingered fatally wounded for ten days but died on this day in Leavenworth, aged fifty-two.  (By John Osborne) 

Kansas Senator James Henry Lane had been a participant in the conflict over "Bleeding Kansas" and then when statehood was achieved served in the U.S. House of Representatives.  He entered the U.S. Senate in 1861 and served during the war simultaneously and controversially as a Union Army general. In the post-war Senate, he had been accused of being too receptive to President Johnson's policies and this, along with mental illness, led to him shooting himself in his carriage near Leavenworth.  He lingered fatally wounded for ten days and died on July 11, 1866.  (By John Osborne) 

The Kansas elections resulted in a complete victory for the Republican slate of candidates.  Governor Samuel J. Crawford was re-elected with more than two-thirds of the votes cast and became the first Kansas governor ever re-elected while the Radical Republican U.S. Congressman Sidney Clarke was re-elected 19,201 votes to 8,106. (By John Osborne) 

The Kansas Republican Convention met in Topeka to nominate candidates for the upcoming state and federal elections.  They nominated sitting governor S. J. Crawford for re-election and Sidney Clarke to return to Congress.  The tone of the convention was reported as "radical" and resolutions strongly condemned President Johnson and his policies, while one called for putting an amendment to the state constitution before the people to remove the word "white" wherever it appeared.  Almost all those nominated were successful in the November election. (By John Osborne)