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	Lewis Cass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician.
		Cass was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery there.
		A statue of Cass is one of the two that was submitted by the State of Michigan to The National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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	Lewis Cass: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) military officer and politician (A person active in party politics).
		Cass represented the State of Michigan (additional info and facts about State of Michigan) in the United States Senate (The upper house of the United States Congress) from 1845 to 1848.
		Cass was a leading supporter of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty (additional info and facts about Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty), which held that the people who lived in a territory should decide whether or not to permit slavery (The practice of owning slaves) there.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lewis_cass.htm (532 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lewis Cass (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Cass later fought with distinction at the battle of the Thames (Oct. 5, 1813).
		Left in command at Detroit, Cass was also appointed governor of Michigan Territory, a post he filled ably for 18 years (1813–31).
		Minister to France (1836–42) and U.S. Senator from Michigan (1845–48, 1849–57), Cass was the Democratic candidate for President in 1848, but because of the defection of the antislavery Democrats led by Martin Van Buren, who became the candidate of the Free-Soil party, he lost the election to the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor.
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	Encyclopedia: Lewis Cass
		U.S. Navy collection portrait of Samuel Southard Samuel Lewis Southard (1787-1842) (son of Henry Southard and brother of Isaac Southard) was a prominent U.S. statesman of the early 1800s, serving as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New Jersey.
		Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 - June 17, 1866) was an American politican.
		Cass was the United States Democratic Party candidate for president in 1848, but he lost the election to Zachary Taylor.
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	Lewis Cass, Michigan's Hero of the War of 1812. 1913. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lewis Cass studied law and in the autumn of 1802 received the first certificate of admission to the bar under the new Ohio constitution.
		Lewis Cass was eminently democratic and the doctrines he proclaimed would be considered generally progressive today.
		Cass did his work well and in the Northwest his name will ever be revered and ever be an inspiration to youth and a source of pride to Michigan as well as to the citizens of other states who have come to know of his services.
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	The History of Genesee, MI, Chapter I, Lewis Cass
		Lewis Cass was a native of Exeter, New Hampshire.
		Lewis was educated in Exeter Academy and was early schooled in the principles and traditions of New England.
		Cass was on his way to explore the northern and western portions of the territory, and with him was a considerable party, including Henry R. Schoolcraft, as geologist.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mi/county/lapeer/gen/ch1/lewcass11.html (2075 words)

	Lewis Cass Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lewis Cass' long public career spanned the period from the War of 1812 to the Civil War.
		Cass rode his military reputation to political fame, serving as the military and civil governor of Michigan Territory between 1813 and 1831.
		Cass was elected Senator from Michigan in 1845 and again in 1851, and was an unsuccessful candidate for president on the Democratic ticket in 1848.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/C/Cass.html (386 words)

	LEWIS CASS - LoveToKnow Article on LEWIS CASS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In 1842, when the Quintuple Treaty was negotiated by representatives of England, France, Prussia, Russia and Austria for the suppression of the slave trade by the exercise of the right of search, Cass attacked it in a pamphlet entitled An.
		His ideas of popular sovereignty, however, were not inconsistent with the vigorous Democratic spirit of the west, of which he was a typical representative, and it is not clear that he believed that the application of this principle would result in the extension of slavery.
		As the west became more radically opposed to slavery after the troubles in Kansas, Cass was soon out of sympathy with his section, and when the Republicans secured control of the legislature in 1857 they refused to return him to the Senate.
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	Lewis Cass
		He was the eldest son of Jonathan Cass, who at the age of nineteen entered the Continental army, and served throughout the revolution, attaining the rank of captain.
		Cass settled upon a tract of land, granted him by the government for his military services, on Muskin-gum river, near Zanesville, while Lewis remained at Marietta to study law in the office of Governor Meigs.
		General Cass was a man of great natural abilities, a prudent, cautious legislator, a scholar of fine attainments, of the purest integrity, temperate in all his habits, and personally popular throughout the country.
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	Lewis Cass Garrigus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Civil War had a deep effect on Lewis Cass Garrigus and on this entire branch of the family as is evidenced in the letters of his father Jeptha.
		When she and her husband produced a son, Richard, Lewis, then retired, could usually be found with the baby at his shoulder explaining to him the Civil War and those things a boy could expect on growing up.
		Lewis Cass Garrigus succumbed to pneumonia on January 21, 1919 in Portland.
	www.garrigus-family.com /lewiscassgarrigus.html (998 words)

	Men Who Ran For President/Vice President The Other Candidates - Lewis Cass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Jonathan Cass had planned and saved for his son’s education, and as a result, Lewis Cass became a student at the Phillips Exeter academy.
		Cass played a major role in planning and implementing the treaties that forced America’s Indian tribes to move west of the Mississippi river.
		Lewis Cass once said, “People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” His legacy will be his role in opening and developing the Northwest Territory.
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	Amazon.com: Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lewis Cass was a significant player in American politics, from the Arron Burr conspiracy during Thomas Jefferson's presidency, through the Trent Affair of the Lincoln administration.
		A vehement opponent of slavery, Cass supported the right of citizens in each state or territory to decide the question for themselves and is therefore known as the "father of popular sovereignty".
		Lewis Cass emerges as a bright symbol of antebellum nationalism and political moderation.
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	General Lewis Cass in Bartow County History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Member of the Ohio Legislature and the US Senate, Cass served as Ohio's US Marshal, was governor of the Territory of Michigan, US Senator, Secretary of War and Minister to France under Andrew Jackson, and Secretary of State under Buchanan.
		Cass served as a colonel in the Third Ohio Regiment during the War of 1812 and became a brigadier general in the US Army the next year.
		Of the ten counties in the United States named for General Cass, Cass County, Georgia was the only one to change its name.
	www.evhsonline.org /people/cass.html (105 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Cass, Lewis @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Left in command at Detroit, Cass was also appointed governor of Michigan Territory, a post he filled ably for 18 years (1813-31).
		Minister to France (1836-42) and U.S. Senator from Michigan (1845-48, 1849-57), Cass was the Democratic candidate for President in 1848, but because of the defection of the antislavery Democrats led by Martin Van Buren, who became the candidate of the Free-Soil party, he lost the election to the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor.
		President Buchanan made (1857) Cass his Secretary of State, but he resigned in Dec., 1860, in protest against the decision not to reinforce the forts of Charleston, S.C. Author not available, CASS, LEWIS.
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	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District - Cass County, Michigan
		The Lewis Cass Intermediate School District (ISD) is incorporated in the state of Michigan.
		Marcellus, as well as the county's private and parochial schools depend on the Lewis Cass ISD for the provision and coordination of general and specialized services.
		The Lewis Cass Board of Education complies with all federal laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination and with all requirements and regulations of the United States Department of Education.
	www.remc11.k12.mi.us /lcisd (198 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Lewis Cass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		by R.D. Monroe, Ph.D. Lewis Cass (1782-1866) was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy.
		Michigan elected Cass to the U.S. Senate in 1845, where he was a generally reliable supporter of President James K. Polk.
		President James Buchanan appointed Cass secretary of state, and he served until Buchanan's weak leadership in the secession crisis prompted him to tender his resignation.
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	Lewis Cass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lewis Cass, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, on 9th October, 1782.
		A member of the Democratic Party, Cass was a elected to the Senate in 1845.
		Cass, who returned to office when he was appointed secretary of state (1857-60), died in Detroit, Michigan, on 17th June, 1866.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcass.htm (161 words)

	Lewis Cass -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		During the War of 1812, Cass rose from the rank of colonel of volunteers to brigadier general in the regular army.
		In 1819 the Young Men's Society was organized by Lewis Cass, who led many early civic endeavours, to...
		Exhibit featuring the 1803 map by Nicholas King and annotated by Meriwether Lewis, on their exploration of the Missouri basin by crossing over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, presented by the Library of Congress, based in Washington, D.C. Also provides a historical background.
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	Lewis Cass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lewis Cass, a literary critical predecessor to Mark Twain, criticized Cooper in 1826 and 1828 in the North American Review, the same magazine that Twain later published his vehement attack on Cooper in 1895.
		Cass had had "official relations" with Indians in Michigan and asserted that this experience made him able to critique Cooper and Heckewelder's idealization (Pearce 211).
		A common subject of Cass' attack was Cooper's heavy reliance on Reverend John Heckewelder's (1743-1825) popular Native American studies, including An Account of the History, Manner, and Customs of the Indian Nations who once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States (1819).
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	Picture History - Lewis Cass (1782-1866)
		Lewis Cass was a soldier, diplomat, and statesmen.
		Cass was the secretary of war in President Andrew Jackson's cabinet and then for the next six years he served as minister to France.
		Cass served as secretary of state under President James Buchanan, but he retired from the post when the president refused to take a firmer stance against the secession of the Southern states.
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	Lewis Cass -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Lewis Cass, engraving by W.G. Jackman after a photograph by Sutton and Bro.
		In the 1848 presidential campaign, Cass was the Democratic nominee but was defeated by the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor.
		He served as secretary of state (1857–60) under President James Buchanan, but he retired from the post when the president refused to take a firmer stance against the secession of the Southern states.
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	Lewis, Iowa IA, city profile (Cass County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lewis, IA Lewis is a city in Cass County.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Lewis was $14,316, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Lewis, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $258.
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	MATHEW BRADY GALLERY, NY - Lewis Cass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A New Hampshire schoolmate of Daniel Webster's, Lewis Cass moved to Ohio at the turn of the century, where his opposition to Aaron Burr in the Ohio legislature led Thomas Jefferson to appoint him marshal of the state.
		Thanks to his distinguished performance against the British in 1812, Cass was named governor of Michigan Territory in 1813, a post he held until 1831.
		Cass spent the remainder of his career in the Senate, where he was a leader of the Democratic Party.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/brady/gallery/73gal.html (227 words)

	Lewis Cass
		The American general and statesman Lewis Cass was born at Exeter, New Hampshire, on the 9th of October 1782.
		He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, joined his father at Marietta, Ohio, about 1799, studied law there in the office of Return Jonathan Meigs (1765-1825), and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty.
		On account of his eminently conservative attitude on all questions concerning slavery, General Cass has been accused of pandering to the southern Democrats in order to further his political aspirations.
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