Henry Dodge

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Henry Dodge

Henry Dodge (born October 12, 1782 in Vincennes , Indiana , †  June 19, 1867 in Burlington , Iowa ) was an American politician . He was governor of the Wisconsin Territory from 1836 to 1841 and again from 1845 to 1848 .

Early years

Henry Dodge came to Missouri via Kentucky in 1796 . There he settled in the village of Ste. Genevieve down. In 1808 he was deputy sheriff in Cape Girardeau County . He served in the Missouri Militia in the 1812 War. After moving to Galena, Illinois , he ran a lead mine. From 1827 he was based in what is now Wisconsin . At that time, the area was still part of the Michigan Territory .

Advancement in Wisconsin

Dodge settled near what is now Dodgeville . In the following years he took part in some military operations against the Indians. Among other things, he was involved in the Black Hawk War . At the end of his military service he had made it up to the Colonel of the Dragoons (cavalry) of the US Army. During the Indian Wars he became known as a kind of war hero in Washington and President Andrew Jackson gave him the order in 1835 to secure a peacekeeping mission in Indian territory. Henry Dodge was a member of President Jackson's Democratic Party . This appointed him in 1836 as the first governor of the Wisconsin Territory.

Henry Dodge as Territorial Governor

On April 30, 1836, before the territory was officially founded on July 3, 1836, Dodge was appointed governor by the president. In his first term, the capital was moved to Madison and the territory was reduced. Dodge's first job was to set up a functioning administration. In 1840 Henry Dodge was elected to the US House of Representatives. There he remained between March 1841 and March 1845. In 1844, he turned down a possible nomination of his party for the American presidency. During this time he spoke out against the annexation of the Republic of Texas . After his election to the US Congress, he resigned as territorial governor in 1841. After his time as a Member of Parliament in Washington, he was reappointed Territorial Governor for Wisconsin by President James K. Polk on April 8, 1845. He held this office until June 1848. Nelson Dewey then took over as the first regular governor of the new state. A small portion of the Wisconsin Territory was not part of the new state and was administered by John Catlin as incumbent governor until it was incorporated into the Minnesota Territory in 1849 .

Further life

Henry Dodge was one of the first two US Senators from the new state. Between 1848 and 1857 he represented Wisconsin in the US Senate , to which his son Augustus also belonged as a representative of Iowa. An interim offer from President Franklin Pierce , who wanted to appoint him governor of the Washington Territory , he turned down. In the US Senate, he was chairman of the trade committee. After his tenure in the Senate ended, Dodge withdrew from politics. He died in 1857. Dodge Counties in Wisconsin and Dodge Counties in Minnesota are named after him. In Henry County , Iowa naming is believed to Dodge. Henry Dodge was the father of US Senator Augustus C. Dodge (1812–1883) and half-brother of Congressman Lewis F. Linn (1795–1843)

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SURNAME Dodge, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Vincennes , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1867
Place of death Burlington , Iowa