Johnson at odds with Holt & Stanton in June of 1865

[John E.]

(03-01-2015 08:16 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(02-21-2015 05:27 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote:  Thanks Eva and Gene! Preston King is who I was thinking of.

Scott, there was probably another suicide you were thinking of, but I couldn't find the name last time, now I did. Senator James Lane of Texas was the other one to shield Johnson, and he, too committed suicide. On July 1, 1866 he shot himself in the head as he jumped from his carriage in Leavenworth, Kansas, and died ten days later. However, as for the motif, Wiki reads: "He was allegedly deranged, depressed, had been charged with abandoning his fellow Radical Republicans and had been accused of financial irregularities."

Hello Eva, just a slight correction to what was probably a typo - Senator Lane was from Kansas, not Texas. He was famous for starting the Kansas Red Legs. He was on hand for the trial of the conspirators.