Lewis Cass
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lewis-cass-170-6948405
title:
Lewis Cass
text:
Lewis Cass was an 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 on whether to permit or prohibit slavery, believing in the ide
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United States Army officer and politician (1782–1866)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Cass
date created:
2003-07-05T22:48:48Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T21:41:42Z
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