Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

Cass served as governor of the Michigan Territory (1813-1831), as U.S. Secretary of War (1831-1836), and as a United States Senator (1845-1857). At the time of this letter, Charles C. Convers was an Ohio state senator.

Soldier, diplomat, and U.S. senator from Detroit, Mich.

Lewis Cass, a senator from Michigan, was born in Exeter, N.H., on October 9, 1782. He served in the U.S. Army, 1813-1814; was appointed secretary of war by President Andrew Jackson, 1831-1836; was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1845, until May 29, 1848, and again from 1849 to 1857; and was an unsuccessful candidate for president on the Democratic ticket in 1848. Cass also served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirty-third Congress,;and was appointed scretary of state by President James Buchanan, serving from 1857 until his resignation in 1860.

Soldier, diplomat, and statesman; of Detroit, Mich.

Governor of the Michigan Territory, 1813-1831, Secreary of War, 1831-1836, U.S. Minister to France, 1836-1842, U.S. Senator, candidate for President, and U.S. Secretary of State.

Lewis Cass was a politician in the United States.

American government official, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1845-1848 and 1851-1856, Democratic nominee for President in 1848, and subsequently Secretary of State under President Buchanan, 1857-1860.

Governor of the Michigan Territory, 1813-1831; secretary of war under Andrew Jackson; secretary of state under James Buchanan.

Territorial Governor of Michigan, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Secretary of War under President Jackson, U.S. minister to France, and Democratic politician.

U.S. secretary of state and secretary of war, governor of Michigan (Territory), army officer, diplomat, and author.

American statesman.

Lewis Cass was governor of the Michigan Territory, 1813-1831, Secretary of War, 1831-1836, U. S. Minister to France, 1836-1842, U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1845-1856, candidate for President in 1848, and U.S. Secretary of State (1857-1860).

Born Exeter, NH; served in the War of 1812; Governor of Michigan Territory, 1813-31; US Secretary of War, 1831-36; US Minister to France, 1836-42; US Senator, 1845-57; Democratic candidate for President, 1848; US Secretary of State, 1857-60.

Born on Oct. 9, 1782 in Exeter, N.H., Lewis Cass served under Gen. Hull in the War of 1812 and was governor of Michigan Territory from 1813-1831. Appointed Secretary of War in 1831 he also served as U.S. Minister to France, was several times elected U.S. senator from Michigan and served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Buchanan. He died June 17, 1866.

Lawyer, author; Ohio representative, 1806; colonel, War of 1812; governor, Territory of Michigan, 1813-1831; U.S. secretary of war, 1831-1836; U.S. minister to France, 1836-1842; Michigan senator, 1845-1848; U.S. secretary of state, 1857-1860.

U.S. Senator from Michigan; b. in Exeter, N.H., attended Exeter Academy; moved with family to Wilmington, Del., in 1799 and taught school there; moved to Northwest Territory in 1801 and settled on a farm near Zanesville, Ohio; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1802; member, state legislature (1806); U.S. marshal for district of Ohio (1807-1812) when enlisted in U.S. Army, serving from 1813-1814; military and civil governor of Michigan Territory (1813-1831), settling in Detroit; appointed Secretary of War by Andrew Jackson and served from 1831-1836, when he resigned, having been appointed to a diplomatic post; elected as a democrat to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1845 until May 29, 1848 when he resigned, having been nominated for president of the U.S.; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (30th Congress); unsuccessful candidate for president on the Democratic ticket in 1848 and again elected to the U.S. Senate on Jan. 20, 1849 and served from March 4, 1849 to Mar. 3, 1857; appointed Secretary of State by James Buchanan and served from 1857 until his resignation in 1860 when he returned to Detroit, Mich.

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Robert William Hughes was born at Muddy Creek Plantation, Powhatan County, Va. in 1821. His parents died in 1822 and he was raised by Edward C. Carrington and Eliza Preston Carrington. He attended Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, N. C. and studied law in Fincastle, Va. He married Eliza M. Johnston, niece of Joseph E. Johnston and the adopted daughter and niece of John B. Floyd. Hughes' son was Robert Morton Hughes. Robert William Hughes was a newspaper editor and federal district attorney. Involved in post Civil War Republican Party politics, he was nominated for governor of Virginia and for Congress but did not win. He was appointed judge of the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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Soldier, diplomat, and statesman.

Born in New Hampshire in 1782 and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Lewis Cass began his term as Michigan territorial governor and superintendent of Indian affairs in 1813, following successes as an Ohio lawyer and War of 1812 officer. By the time Cass left Michigan in 1831 to head the War Dept., he had encouraged settlement of the territory and pursued an Indian policy based on annuities and gifts, military protection, a soundly regulated Indian Dept., educational and farming expenditures, and opposition to the government factory system. He also concluded nearly two dozen treaties with Indian tribes under his jurisdiction.