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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinHenry DODGE
(1782-1867)
Senate Years of Service:
1848-1857Party: DemocratDODGE, Henry,
(half-brother of Lewis Fields Linn, father of Augustus Caesar
Dodge), a Delegate and a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Vincennes,
Ind., October 12, 1782; received a limited schooling; moved to
Missouri in 1796 and settled at Ste. Genevieve; sheriff of Cape
Girardeau County in 1808; moved to Galena, Ill., and operated a
lead mine; moved to Wisconsin in 1827, then part of Michigan
Territory, and settled near the present site of Dodgeville; served
in the Black Hawk and other Indian wars; was commissioned major of
United States Rangers 1832; left the Army as colonel of the First
United States Dragoons 1836; appointed Governor of the Territory of
Wisconsin 1836-1841; elected as a Democratic Delegate to the
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3,
1845); was not a candidate for renomination in 1844, having again
accepted the appointment of Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin,
and served from 1845 until 1848; upon the admission of Wisconsin as
a State into the Union in 1848 was elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate; reelected in 1851 and served from June 8,
1848, to March 3, 1857; chairman, Committee on Commerce
(Thirty-fourth Congress); declined the appointment of Governor of
Washington Territory by President Franklin Pierce in 1857; retired
to private life; died in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, June
19, 1867; interment in Aspen Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Clark, James I. Henry Dodge, Frontiersman.
Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1957; Pelzer,
Louis. Henry Dodge. Iowa City: State Historical Society of
Iowa, 1911.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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