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California’s First Governor, First Senator, and the Republican Party’s First Presidential Candidate
FRÉMONT, JOHN CHARLES. (1813-1890). American explorer and Union major general; ran unsuccessfully against James Buchanan as the first Republican candidate for president of the United States in 1856. ALS. (“J.C. Frémont”). 1p. 4to. Washington, September 3, 1850. To a newspaper writer, G.B. Wallis.
I have to acknowledge the attention of your note of yesterday, & beg you to receive my thanks for the article in the Herald. Without making any claim to the high consideration you have given me, I can at least take pleasure in thanking you for the very forcible manner in which you have given point & effort to almost every occurrence in which I have been engaged.
During the 1830s and 1840s Frémont led expeditions to survey and explore territories between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the Oregon Trail and the Sierra Nevada. He was instrumental in wresting California from Mexican control and in 1847 was appointed the first governor of the California Territory. In 1850, the year of our letter, Frémont was elected to a six month term as one of his state’s first two senators. In fact, our letter is written just six days prior to his taking office in Washington. Six years later the newly-formed Republican Party chose him as its first presidential candidate. He received 1.3 million popular votes to Buchanan’s 1.8 million. At the outbreak of the Civil War, President Lincoln appointed Frémont a major general and put him in charge of the poorly defined Department of the West, headquartered in St. Louis. When Frémont declared martial law in Missouri, he met with Lincoln’s disapproval and was ultimately relieved of command. After serving briefly in West Virginia, he resigned from the military. Folded and in fine condition.
Item #13842 Fremont
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