Lewis Cass explored Minnesota for source of Mississippi; and Michigan-Minnesota Territory settled by immigrants

American Minute ^ | October 9, 2019 | Bill Federer

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The Democrat candidate for President in 1848 was Lewis Cass, born OCTOBER 9, 1782.

In 1807, Lewis Cass became the US Marshal for Ohio.

He was a Brigadier-General in the War of 1812, fighting in the decisive Battle of Moravian Town, or Battle of the Thames, where the British and their ally, Indian Chief Tecumseh, were defeated.

This secured the Territory for the United States.

President James Madison appointed Lewis Cass as Governor-General of the Michigan Territory, 1813-1831.

Cass made Indian treaties, organized townships and built roads.

In 1820, just 14 years after Lewis and Clark returned from discovering the source of the Missouri River, Lewis Cass led an expedition to northern Minnesota in search of the source of the Mississippi River.

This was necessary in order to define the border between the U.S. and Canada.

He mistakenly identified Cass Lake as the river's source.

Cass' expedition geologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was later able to correctly identify the source of the Mississippi River as Lake Itasca in 1832.

President Andrew Jackson appointed Lewis Cass as Secretary of War in 1831, then minister to France in 1836.

Lewis Cass was elected a U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1845-48, 1849-57.

He was the Democrat Presidential Candidate in 1848.

Cass was Secretary of State for President James Buchanan, 1857-1860.

Senator Lewis Cass wrote from Washington, D.C. in 1846:

"God, in His providence, has given us a Book of His revealed will to be with us at the commencement of our career in this life and at its termination;

and to accompany us during all chances and changes of this trying and fitful progress, to control the passions, to enlighten the judgment, to guide the conscience, to teach us what

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The photo of the beginning of the Mississippi river.
I have been there. People try walking across the rocks to cross the river. Downriver is a few small bridges you can walk back and forth across. A small creek is what it looks like before it gets Mighty.