Lewis Cass

 1782-1866

Secretary of State

 

Democrat from New Hampshire, he rose to brigadier general in the War of 1812 and was appointed Michigan's second territorial governor. He steered Michigan to statehood and designed the state's Coat of Arms. He founded the Historical Society of Michigan in 1828. President Andrew Jackson appointed him Secretary of War in 1831 and later minister to France. He was the Democratic candidate for president in 1848, but he lost to Zachary Taylor. Later, he became President James Buchanan's Secretary of State, but resigned when Buchanan refused to respond decisively to South Carolina's secession

 

Antique steel plate engraving on  paper

Total size including margins 10 x 7  inches

Engraver: T.B.Welch

Drawn by J.B.Longacre

Produced  by Monson Bancroft, Philadelphia 

for 'The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans 

Condition:  Good, full margins

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