Henry Lane Wilson

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Henry Lane Wilson (1859 – 1932) was an American diplomat.

Wilson was born in Columbus, New Mexico, and was involved with Álvaro Obregón, Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, and Gustavo A. Madero in the Mexican Revolution. As a US ambassador to Mexico, he treacherously assumed the role of catalyst for Felix Diaz, General Victoriano Huerta and General Bernardo Reyes to plot against the government of and arrange the murder of President Francisco I. Madero, during La decena tragica (The Ten Tragic Days) in February 1913. He was United States Ambassador under the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) and William Howard Taft (1909-1913). New US President Woodrow Wilson, who was appalled by Wilson's assistance to the coup d'etat against Madero, dismissed Ambassador Wilson.

President Wilson did not immediately appoint a new ambassador to Mexico, rather sending ex-Minnesota governor John Lind as his personal envoy to report on developments in Mexico.

Preceded by David Eugene Thompson

Ambassador to Mexico 1909–1912

Succeeded by Henry P. Fletcher