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About Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass was a United States Army officer and politician. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee. A slave owner himself, he was a leading spokesman for the doctrine of popular sovereignty, which at the time held the idea that people in each U.S state should have the right to decide whether to permit slavery as a matter of states' rights.
Everything about Lewis Cass →- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer
- Position held
- Ohio state representative, United States Secretary of State, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, United States Secretary of War
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 9, 1782, 1782
- Died
- June 17, 1866, 1866