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Lewis Cass portrait
No full textLewis Cass (1782-1866) was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1806. After resigning as U.S. Marshal in 1812 to enlist in the United States Army, he played an active role in Ohio's defense during the War of 1812. During that war, President James Madison appointed Cass the governor of the Michigan Territory; he served in this position from 1813 until 1831, when President Andrew Jackson appointed Cass Secretary of War. Cass held this position until 1836, when Jackson appointed him the United States' ambassador to France, where he remained until 1842. After being elected to the United States Senate from Michigan in 1845, Cass was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1848. He lost the election and returned to Michigan, serving as one of that state's U.S. Senators until 1857, when he became President James Buchanan's Secretary of State
Lewis Cass and the politics of moderation
No full textDrawing upon Lewis Cass's private papers, correspondence and published works, Willard Klunder provides a detailed biography of the man who was Democratic spokesman for the Old Northwest for more than 50 years. Cass was a spread-eagle expansionist and ardent nationalist
Letter from Lewis Cass & William Ashley to George Sibley, April 12, 1833
No full textTranscript of Letter from Lewis Cass & William Ashley to George Sibley, April 12, 1834. Cass and Ashley discuss business related to the Santa Fe Trail
Letter from Lewis Cass to James B. Finley
No full textLewis Cass, having received a letter of confirmation from the War Department concerning the Indian Sub-Agency, informs Finley -- You will therefore consider the instructions and authority which I gave you, as permanent. Abstract number - 710https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1804/thumbnail.jp
General Lewis Cass, 1782-1866.
No full textTwo letters by General Lewis Cass and five addressed to him and the resolution adopted by the New York historical society at the time of his death. These letters were found by his great grandson, Cass Canfield, in a box of old papers.Mode of access: Internet.Gift of Earl De La Vergn
Letter from Lewis Cass to A. C. Van Raalte
No full textA letter to A.C.V.R. from Lewis Cass in Washington: I have the pleasure to inform you that an appropriation is reported in the improvement bill for $10,000 for Black River, and I assure you that no effort will be spared by the whole of our delegation to procure its final passage... Appended at the bottom of the letter is a note from Hoyt G. Post, dated, August 31: Above I give you my translation of Mr. Cass\u27 letter...https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1850s/1180/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Lewis Cass to James B. Finley
No full textThe bearer of this letter, Captain Cass, is being sent to Upper Sandusky as Indian Sub-Agent, and is to receive instruction, information, and advice from Finley, who is to call a Council of the Indians and introduce Captain Cass and read a letter directed to them by the writer. Abstract Number - 747https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/2254/thumbnail.jp
Lewis Cass letter to Moses Dawson
No full textCass (Washington) writes Dawson (Cincinnati, Ohio) that public duties will not allow his acceptation to the Friends of Free Principles dinner in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 4, 1836 and expresses that Public Sentiment - the last and safest appeal in a Republican Government.https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/dawson_correspondence/1029/thumbnail.jp
Family of Lewis Cass White
No full textLewis Cass White family: Arthur White, Floyd White, Mittie Grimes, Lewis Cass White, Elihu White, John W. Reddell, Laura White Reddell, Ada, daughter of John Reddell. Photo was made in 1895
Cass, Lewis
No full textA carte-de-visite card of Lewis Cass, 1782-1866, a United States Army Officer during the War of 1812 and a politician.https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/allmcdv/1097/thumbnail.jp
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