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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Michigan CASS, Lewis(1782—1866)Senate Years of Service: 1845-1848; 1849-1857Party: Democrat; Democrat CASS, Lewis, (great-great-grandfather of Cass Ballenger), a Senator from Michigan; born in Exeter, N.H., October 9, 1782; attended Exeter Academy; moved with his parents to Wilmington, Del., in 1799 and taught school there; moved to the Northwest Territory in 1801 and settled on a farm near Zanesville, Ohio; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1802; member, State house of representatives 1806; United States marshal for the district of Ohio 1807-1812, when he resigned to enlist in the Army; served in the United States Army 1813-1814, attaining the rank of brigadier general; military and civil Governor of Michigan Territory 1813-1831; settled in Detroit; appointed Secretary of War by President Andrew Jackson and served from 1831 to 1836, when he resigned, having been appointed to a diplomatic post; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France 1836-1842; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1845, until May 29, 1848, when he resigned, having been nominated for President of the United States; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirtieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for President on the Democratic ticket in 1848; again elected to the United States Senate on January 20, 1849, to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation; was reelected, and served from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1857; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirty-third Congress; appointed Secretary of State by President James Buchanan and served from 1857 until his resignation in 1860; returned to Detroit, Mich., and engaged in literary pursuits; died in Detroit, Mich., June 17, 1866; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Burns, Virginia. Lewis Cass, Frontier Soldier . Bath, MI: Enterprise Press, 1980. Dunbar, Willis Frederick. Lewis Cass . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970. Ferris, Woodbridge N. “Lewis Cass, Michigan’s Hero of the War of 1812.” Michigan Historical Collections 39 (1915): 270-74. Hewlett, Richard G. “Lewis Cass in National Politics, 1842-1861.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1952. Klunder, Willard Carl. Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation . Kent. OH: Kent State University Press, 1996. ___. “Lewis Cass.” Michigan History 75 (January/February 1991): 12-21. ___. “Lewis Cass and Slavery Expansion: ‘The Father of Popular Sovereignty’ and Ideological Infanticide.” Civil War History 32 (December 1986): 293-317. ___. “The Seeds of Popular Sovereignty: Governor Lewis Cass and Michigan Territory.” Michigan Historical Review 17 (Spring 1991): 65-81. McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham. Lewis Cass. 1899. Reprint, with new introduction by Holman Hamilton. New York: Chelsea House, 1980. Ranck, James B. “Lewis Cass and Squatter Sovereignty.” Michigan History Magazine 14 (Winter 1930): 28-37. Smith, William L. G. Fifty Years of Public Life: The Life and Times of Lewis Cass . New York: Derby Jackson, 1856. Spencer, Donald S. “Lewis Cass and Symbolic Intervention: 1848-1852.” Michigan History 53 (Spring 1969): 1-17. Stevens, Walter W. “Lewis Cass and the Presidency.” Michigan History 49 (June 1965): 123-34. ___. “Michigan’s Lewis Cass.” Filson Club History Quarterly 39 (October 1965): 320-25. ___. “The Scholarship of Lewis Cass.” Michigan History 44 (March 1960): 59-66. ___. “A Study of Lewis Cass and His United States Senate Speeches on Popular Sovereignty.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1959. Woodford, Frank Bury. Lewis Cass: The Last Jeffersonian . 1950. Reprint. New York: Octagon Books, 1973. Young, William T. Sketch of the Life and Public Services of General Lewis Cass . Detroit: Markham Elwood, 1852. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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