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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinDODGE, Henry
(1782—1867)
Senate Years of Service:
1848-1857
Party:
Democrat
DODGE, 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.
Clark, James I. Henry Dodge, Frontiersman
. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1957.
Harlan, E. R., ed. “Colonel Henry Dodge and His Regiment of Dragoons on the Plains in 1834.” Annals of Iowa
17 (January 1930): 173-97.
Pelzer, Louis. Henry Dodge
. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1911.
Rayman, Ronald. “Confrontation at the Fever River Lead Mining District: Joseph Montfort Street vs. Henry Dodge, 1827-1828.” Annals of Iowa
44 (Spring 1978): 278-95.
Salter, William. “Henry Dodge.” Iowa Historical Record
5 (October 1889): 337-61; 6 (January 1890): 391-423; (April 1890): 445-67; 7 (July 1891): 101-19; 8 (April 1892): 251-67; (July 1892): 297-317.
___. The Life of Henry Dodge, from 1782 to 1833.
Burlington, IA: n.p., 1890.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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