Elias Kane

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Elias Kent Kane
Secretary of State of Illinois
In office
1818–1822
GovernorShadrach Bond
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded bySamuel D. Lockwood
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
Personal details
Born(1794-06-07)June 7, 1794
New York City, New York
DiedDecember 12, 1835(1835-12-12) (aged 41)
Washington, D.C.
Political partyJacksonian

Elias Kent Kane (June 7, 1794 – December 12, 1835) was the first Illinois Secretary of State and a U.S. Senator from Illinois.[1]

Early life

He was born in New York City, to merchant Capt. Elias Kent Kane and Deborah VanSchelluyne of Dutchess County, New York. Young Kane attended public schools, then Yale College, from which he has graduated in the year 1813.

Career

After he studied law and was admitted to the bar, Kane commenced practice in Nashville, Tennessee, and then moved to Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1814.

He became allied with

Quaker James Lemen, publisher Hooper Warren and future governor Edward Coles.[2][3] Kane claimed ownership of five people as slaves in 1820,[4]

After an unsuccessful 1820 campaign for election to the

Secretary of State, and served from 1820 to 1824. In that year, Kane led proslavery forces in the Illinois House of Representatives which attempted to call another constitutional convention, but was again defeated by a coalition led by Governor Coles, U.S. Representative Cook and religious leaders of many denominations.[7]
However, fellow legislators twice appointed Kane to the United States Senate. He served from March 4, 1825, until his death in Washington, D.C., in 1835.

Legacy

His body was returned to the family farm in

William H. Bissell, a vocal opponent of slavery. Kane's father (of the same name) is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.,[8]
having survived this son by five years and secured his namesake grandson's admission to West Point.

On January 16, 1836, the Illinois legislature formed a new county, Kane, and named it to honor the recently deceased Senator, Elias Kent Kane.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ United States Congress. "Elias Kane (id: K000006)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  2. ^ Leichtle and Carveth, Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) pp. 74, 78.
  3. ISBN 0-7864-2639-X
    at pp. 62, 66-74.
  4. ^ Weil, Julie Zauzmer; Blanco, Adrian; Dominguez, Leo (10 January 2022). "More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 April 2022. Updated 12 April 2022
  5. ^ Leichtle and Carveth p. 78 citing issues of July 18 and 25 and August 8, 1820, as well as .C. Pease, Frontier State 1818-1848, 72-72; Harris, History of Negro Servitude 27-29
  6. ^ Ress, pp. 82-83
  7. ^ Ress, p. 148 et seq.
  8. ^ "Elias Kane". Google Arts & Culture. Historic Congressional Cemetery. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  9. ^ "Kane County History" (PDF). Geneva, Illinois: Kane County Government Center. 2010. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  10. ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 172.
Political offices
Preceded by
Office created
 Illinois Secretary of State
1818-1822 		Succeeded by
U.S. Senate
Preceded by
John M. Robinson
 		Succeeded by
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