Brigadier General Lewis Cass

Teacher, Lawyer, Legislator, Soldier

Born: 10-9-1782, Exeter, NH Died: 6-17-1866 Member of the Ohio Legislature and the US Senate, Cass served as Ohio's US Marshal, was governor of the Territory of Michigan, US Senator, Secretary of War and Minister to France under Andrew Jackson, and Secretary of State under Buchanan. Cass served as a colonel in the Third Ohio Regiment during the War of 1812 and became a brigadier general in the US Army the next year. Of the ten counties in the United States named for General Cass, Cass County, Georgia was the only one to change its name. The others are in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Misouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Texas.

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