Papers, 1836-1883.

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Papers, 1836-1883.

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Correspondence, account books, and miscellaneous notebooks pertaining to Dodge's political, business and personal life. The bulk of the letters are between Augustus Dodge and his wife, Clara (1841-1849), Dodge and Spain's minister of state (1857-1858), and Dodge and Lewis Cass, U.S. secretary of state (1857-1859). Typescript copies of 3 Senate bills are included. One of the bills seeks to grant right of way and land to the State of Iowa for construction of railroads. A second bill addresses the organization of the Territory of Nebraska. The third bill addresses the protection of an emigrant route, a telegraphic line and overland mail between the Missouri River and California and Oregon. Record books of personal expenses, land ownership, business affairs (mining in Montana and lead processing in Dodge's Grove, Wisconsin) and food bought in Spain as well as a scrapbook of newspaper clippings are included. Materials by others include a typescript article about the Kirkwood-Dodge political debates compiled by Jack Bladine, biographical notes by Louis Pelzer, and correspondence between Dodge's son, William W. Dodge, and Pelzer concerning the Dodge papers and books and Pelzer's biography of A.C. Dodge.

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...

Dodge, William W.

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Dodge, Augustus C. (Augustus Caesar), 1812-1883

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Prominent politician of the Democratic Party during Iowa's early days as a state. Dodge was a supporter of the Homestead Bill, Compromise Bill of 1850, anti-slavery legislation, and temperance. He served 3 terms as a congressional representative (1840-1846) before becoming one of Iowa's first 2 senators. In 1839 he was appointed by Governor Lucas to be the brigadier-general of the Second Brigade of the First Division of the militia of the Iowa territory. In 1838 Dodge was appointed Register of t...

Pelzer, Louis, 1879-1946

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Democratic Party (Iowa)

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Kirkwood, Samuel Jordan, 1813-1894

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Iowa governor, Iowa and U.S. Senator, abolitionist, lawyer. Samuel Kirkwood served as a Republican state senator (1856-1859), Iowa governor (1860-1864, 1876-1877), U.S. senator (1866-1867, 1877-1881), and U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1881-1882, under President Garfield). He also served as president of the Iowa and Southwestern Railroad Company and the Iowa City National Bank. From the description of Papers, 1841-1894. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id...

Dodge, Clara Mildred Isaksen, 1916-

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Bladine, Jack.

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