John Charles Frémont

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1813-01-21

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1890-07-13

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"John Charles Frémont" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00009710, (accessed April 26, 2024).

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Explorer, surveyor, politician, and soldier. Savannah, Georgia, native. Son of Jean Charles Frémont and Anne Beverly Whiting Pryor Frémont. Married Jessie Benton Frémont on October 19, 1841. Father of Elizabeth Frémont, John Charles Frémont, and Francis Frémont. Attended Charleston College in Charleston, South Carolina from May 1828 to 1831. Teacher on the ship "Natchez" in 1833. Served in the United States Topographical Corps as second lieutenant. Elected U.S. Senator for the State of California in 1850. Unsuccessful Republican nominee for president in 1856. Served in the U.S. Army as major general from 1861 to 1862.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, Westchester County, Mount Pleasant, 334B. Frederick G. Harrison, Biographical Sketches of Preeminent Americans, Volume 3, (Boston: E.W. Walker, 1893). Eds. Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, Dictionary of American Biography, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931), 19-23.

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