Lewis Cass

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American politician (1782-1866)

United States PoliticiansLived 1782 to 1866 · aged 83

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Lewis Cass was a United States Army officer and politician. S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee. S state should have the right to decide whether to permit slavery as a matter of states' rights.

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Cass & Butler 1848 Jugate Ribbon

Photograph of Secretary Cass, by Mathew Brady, c. 1860-65

Posthumous portrait of Cass, by Daniel Huntington, c. 1873

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Lewis Cass was a United States Army officer and politician. 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. A slave owner himself, he was a leading spokesman for the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which at the time held the idea that people in each U.S state should have the right to decide whether to permit slavery as a matter of states' rights.

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